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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;willieboyd2, post: 2577902, member: 4910&quot;]The Monroe Doctrine Commemorative 1923 Half Dollar:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.brianrxm.com/posts/post_unitedstates_c50_1923s_monroe.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>United States Half Dollar 1923-S - Monroe Doctrine Commemorative</p><p>Specs: Silver, 30mm, 12.55gm</p><p>Obverse:</p><p>Former presidents James Monroe and John Quincy Adams facing left.</p><p>UNITED STATES OF AMERICA / HALF DOLLAR / IN GOD WE TRUST</p><p>MONROE-ADAMS / 1923-S</p><p>Reverse:</p><p>Stylized figures of women on continents North and South America</p><p>MONROE DOCTRINE CENTENNIAL / LOS ANGELES / 1823-1923</p><p><br /></p><p>These coins were manufactured to help fund the Los Angeles Monroe Doctrine Centennial Exposition which was to be held in 1923.</p><p><br /></p><p>The &quot;Monroe Doctrine&quot; was contained in President James Monroe&#039;s annual message to Congress on December 2, 1823, which warned European nations against interfering with American or Western Hemisphere nations.</p><p><br /></p><p>By 1922, the Hollywood film industry was making silent films and was beset with various scandals.</p><p><br /></p><p>Film director William Desmond Taylor was shot and killed, he reported kept underwear belonging to his &quot;conquests&quot;, two of whom, actresses Mabel Normand and teenage actress Mary Miles Minter became suspects in the shooting, along with Minter&#039;s mother.</p><p><br /></p><p>Actor Roscoe &quot;Fatty&quot; Arbuckle was tried several times for rape and finally acquitted, and there were many other film personalities involved in sexual or drug scandals, including some who died from drug overdoses.</p><p><br /></p><p>The film studios banded together to create an exposition or &quot;world&#039;s fair&quot; in Los Angeles, and had this commemorative coin issued to promote the exposition.</p><p><br /></p><p>The exposition organizers picked the 100th anniversary of the Monroe Doctrine as the theme for the coin as the coin needed the authorization of the United States Congress and a celebration of the film industry would not get that.</p><p><br /></p><p>The San Francisco Mint made 300,000 of these coins which were to be sold for $1.00 each.</p><p><br /></p><p>Most were unsold and were then issued as circulation coins.</p><p>The coin&#039;s designer was accused of copying another artist&#039;s design.</p><p>The exposition was a financial failure.</p><p><br /></p><p>President Monroe&#039;s image appeared on some dollar-size tokens at the same time, and these made appearances in films.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.brianrxm.com/posts/post_token_presmonroe_birdparadise.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>President James Monroe Token - Bird of Paradise</p><p>Specs: White metal, 35mm, 9.28gm</p><p>Obverse:</p><p>President James Monroe facing half left, no text</p><p>Reverse:</p><p>Bird of Paradise and man kneeling in temple surrounded by eight-pointed rounded star, no text</p><p>This token was supposedly made for film studio use.</p><p><br /></p><p>This token appeared in the following films:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.brianrxm.com/posts/post_movie_supermanatomman_tokenmonroe.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Atom Man vs. Superman (1950)</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.brianrxm.com/posts/post_movie_gundueldurango_tokenmonroe.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Gun Duel at Durango (1957)</p><p><br /></p><p>This token references the Monroe Doctrine Centennial and was produced by the Los Angeles Rubber Stamp Company which, among other things, made film prop coins for studios.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.brianrxm.com/posts/post_token_presmonroe_rubberstamp.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>President James Monroe Token - Los Angeles Rubber Stamp Company</p><p>Specs: Aluminum, 35mm, 3.87gm</p><p>Obverse:</p><p>President James Monroe facing half left</p><p>COMPLIMENTS OF / LOS ANGELES RUBBER STAMP CO.</p><p>Reverse:</p><p>Los Angeles city emblem with flag, bear, eagle, castle, lion</p><p>MONROE DOCTRONE (sic) CENTENNIAL 1923 (The token misspells &quot;doctrine&quot;)</p><p>STADIUM, LOS ANGELES. CALIF.</p><p>CITY OF LOS ANGELES / FOUNDED 1781</p><p><br /></p><p>This token appeared in the following films:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.brianrxm.com/posts/post_movie_kim_tokenmonroe.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Kim (1950)</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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