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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;CoinCorgi, post: 4895493, member: 88934&quot;]Remind me why they stopped minting the classic commemorative halfs in 1954?</p><p><br /></p><p>From NGC&#039;s website...</p><p><br /></p><p><i>Congress often used the commemoratives to raise money for projects related to the historical event, such as building a memorial. By the 1920s, however, commemoratives were being issued for seemingly unimportant events and struck for multiple years at several mints to boost sales. With the plethora of commemoratives issued in the 1920s, Congress noted in 1925 that many of these “commemorate events of local and not national interest.” </i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>The Oregon Trail Memorial half, for example, was struck from 1926 to 1939 at the Philadelphia, Denver, and San Francisco Mints. This may have been the last straw; on February 27, 1939 Congress prohibited further commemoratives from being issued, although there were a few exceptions. The Classic Commemorative series officially came to a close with the Washington/Carver half dollar, struck from 1951-1954 to “oppose the spread of communism among Negroes in the interest of national defense.” </i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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