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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Publius2, post: 4500951, member: 105571&quot;]The U.S. mint started making proofs again in 1936 after having stopped in 1916.&nbsp; Why?&nbsp; The answer is given is Roger W. Burdette&#039;s comprehensive 2016 book<i> United States Proof Coins, 1936-1942</i>, another of his well-researched and written additions to our literature.&nbsp; This was a question that got me interested in these proofs and spurred me to collect the seven-coin series of Walking Liberty Half Dollars (shown below).&nbsp; The mint had spurned collectors&#039; requests for proofs for 20 years so why restart production in the depths of the depression?&nbsp; The answer is that the Mint was arm-twisted into starting proofs again when Franklin D. Roosevelt granted a death-bed wish to his chief personal secretary and friend, Louis McHenry Howe.&nbsp; So we have Mr. Howe to thank even though he was not a coin or stamp collector.&nbsp; Mr. Howe unfortunately passed away shortly before the first proofs could be shown to him.</p><p><br /></p><p>So share your proofs of this era as a tribute to Louis McHenry Howe.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1116213[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1116214[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1116216[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1116217[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1116218[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1116219[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1116220[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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