"The impetus for seeking a commemorative coin honoring the sesquicentennial of Lynchburg’s chartering in 1936 seems to have been simply local pride. The city held an anniversary celebration October 12-16, and though not specified, it’s likely that the profits derived from coin sales were intended to help defray the expenses of this event. The Lynchburg Half Dollar legislation evidently breezed through a Congress already numbed by a flurry of commemorative coin bills, and it was passed on May 28, 1936. This law authorized the minting of up to 20,000 pieces, which were to be coined with a single design and at a single mint. These last two provisions were in response to the abuses of other coin programs in which numerous date/mint combinations of a single type had frustrated collectors." Read more........http://www.coinsite.com/content/Commemoratives/Lynchburg.asp
