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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 280704, member: 66&quot;]They recently (sometime in the past five years or so) set forth guidelines for the selection of subjects for US commemorative coins.&nbsp; One thing was that anniversaries should stick to 50 year intervals&nbsp; So the 40th anniversary of MLK death would not be appropriate.&nbsp; 2018 would be the proper year for an MLK coin, or 2029 for the century of his birth.</p><p><br /></p><p>The fifty year restriction is probably a good idea too since many things that strike us as important shortly after they occur often turn out to be minor events after the passage of time puts them into perspective.&nbsp; And if you don&#039;t set rules like that you start getting suggestions for commemorating all kinds of things and weird anniversaries.&nbsp; (OK, I will admit I found the 38th anniversary of the Korean war oddly appropriate, but I would have been just as satisfied with a 50th anniversary.&nbsp; Especially since it seems that very few people were able to understand why the 38th was chosen.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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