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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ddddd, post: 24598769, member: 22377&quot;]So-called half dollars ...</p><p>here is a thread and a nice summary from member &quot;commems&quot;:</p><p><br /></p><p><i>&quot;Charles E. Smith was a Boston coin dealer. I don&#039;t believe he was a big dealer or a &quot;market maker&quot; as I&#039;ve not seen ads of his in the primary numismatic publication of the time - the ANA&#039;s The Numismatist. (This is just conjecture on my part, however.)</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>At the time Smith&#039;s medals were issued, the US Congress was putting the brakes on US commemorative half dollar coins. Smith may have believed he could fill a void in the marketplace by creating commemorative medals that were roughly the same size; Smith&#039;s medals were slightly larger at 32 mm in diameter to avoid running afoul of the US Government.</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>You mentioned that the 1947 issues can &quot;sometimes be found in Mehgrig album pages.&quot; At the time of issue, Smith contracted with Wayte Raymond, the originator of such boards, to create a page for the eight-piece set and to use &quot;So-Called Half Dollars&quot; as the title for it. Mehgrig may have reprinted the board after the original Wayte Raymond supply was sold out; they did so with many of the other Wayte Raymond pages. In the 1960s, Capital Plastics also produced three-piece plastic holders for these medals.</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>The Battle of Lexington, the Daniel Boone, the Lindbergh, the Antarctic Expedition and the Pony Express pieces were all originally issued prior to 1947; Whitehead and Hoag re-struck these medals for Smith from the dies they had used in prior years.&quot;</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i><a href="https://www.coincommunity.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=328924" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.coincommunity.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=328924" rel="nofollow">https://www.coincommunity.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=328924</a></i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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