Message:

<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 1184248, member: 66&quot;]The silver dollar gives a larger canvas for the artwork.&nbsp; And there have also been some modern commemorative half dollars as well.</p><p><br /></p><p>For each commemorative series there has been a group that get a portion of the sale price, typically $35 for each gold coin, $10 for each silver dollar, and either $5 or $8, I forget which, for each half dollar.&nbsp; Each of these groups also half to raise matching funds before they can receive the surcharge money.&nbsp; There have been a few times in the past where the group has been allowed to have part of the money before they raise the matching funds.&nbsp; There have been times when the group has tried to get the matching fund requirement waived but so far they haven&#039;t succeeded as far as I know.&nbsp; There has been one case where the group was unable to raise the funds so the government gave it to a different group than they told the buyers it was going to go to.&nbsp; And there has been one case where the group was able to raise the money but other legislation skimmed the first million dollars in surcharges and gave it to another group that had already had their own commemorative coin. (Jackie Robinson commems, the first million in surcharges were skimmed off and given to the National Botanical Garden.&nbsp; The Botanical Garden coins earlier in the year raised $4,649,800 in surcharges and they got all of it.&nbsp; The Jackie Robinson commem raised $2,156,320 and a million of it was turned over to the Botanical Gardens.&nbsp; In my opinion this was&nbsp; despicable.&nbsp; This coin, in part, celebrated Robinson&#039;s triumph over un fair discrimination.&nbsp; The money from the surcharges were to be paid into the Jackie Robinson Foundation and used for scholarships for disadvantaged children.&nbsp; To have nearly half of the money taken away was shameful. Even worse was the wife of the legislator who introduced the bill to take that million away and give it to the Botanical Gardens, was the chairperson of the board of the Botanical Gardens.&nbsp; Influence?)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

Your name or email address:

Do you already have an account?

• No, create an account now.
• Yes, my password is:
• Forgot your password?

Stay logged in