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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;leeg, post: 3524522, member: 17073&quot;]This is the only other image I&#039;ve found for a proposed design:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a195/leeg1957/Book%20Project%20Images/Commems%20Proposed%20but%20Failed/Proposed%20Cleveland%20Design.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b><i>The Numismatist</i>, Designs for Proposed Grover Cleveland Coin. May, 1937, p. 406. The designs are by Edwin D. Mott, a local artist.</b></p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; “A bill authorizing a half dollar to commemorate the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of Grover Cleveland has been introduced in the Senate, according to press reports. It is said the bill authorizes the coinage of 50,000 half dollars, to be struck for the Caldwell Coin Club.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; Former President Grover Cleveland was born in Caldwell, N.J., in March, 1837, where it is proposed to celebrate the 100th anniversary of his birth. The old Cleveland home on Bloomfield Avenue, opposite the Erie Station, was entirely restored last summer by WPA workers.”<b>45</b></p><p><br /></p><p><b>44 <i>The Numismatist</i>, Commemorative Coins. February, 1937, pg. 107-108.</b></p><p><br /></p><p>“Bills Introduced For New Commemorative Coins, A Goodly Number Proposed for 1937<b>. . .</b></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Caldwell (N. J.) Coin Club Asks for Grover Cleveland half Dollar.</b></p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; To authorize the coinage of 50-cent pieces in commemoration of the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of Grover Cleveland.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; This bill authorizes an issue of not more than 25,000 pieces, to bear the date 1937 irrespective of the year in which they are minted, to be struck at the three mints at such times as they may be requested by the Chairman of the Caldwell Coin Club Committee. Not less than 5000 coins shall be issued at any one time, and no coins shall be issued after one year from the passage of the act.</p><p><br /></p><p>The proceeds from the sale of the coins shall be used in defraying the expenses incidental and appropriate to the commemoration of the event.</p><p><br /></p><p><b><i>The Numismatist</i>, Bills Introduced For New Commemorative Coins.</b> <b>March 1937, pg. 202-208.</b></p><p><br /></p><p>“Designs For Proposed Grover Cleveland Coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; If and when the bill authorizing the issue of a half dollar commemorating the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of Grover Cleveland pass Congress, the designs on the coin will follow closely the drawings illustrated here. The Caldwell Coin club is sponsor for the coin. The designs are by Edwin D. Mott, a local artist.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; The reverse shows the manse of the First Presbyterian Church in Caldwell, N.J., where Grover Cleveland was born in 1837. At that time his father was pastor of the Church, but left that field when the future president was 4 years old.”<b>58</b></p><p><br /></p><p><b>58 <i>The Numismatist</i>, Designs for Proposed Grover Cleveland Coin. May, 1937, p. 406.</b></p><p><br /></p><p>The end.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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