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<p>[QUOTE="Clinker, post: 294574, member: 6229"]<font size="3">Every once in a while an idea reaches the mind of a man who has a position in society to accept the idea and the capacity to do something with it.</font></p><p> </p><p><font size="3">At President James Monroe's seventh annual State of the Union Address to Congress, he presented his newly acquired idea, "<font face="Arial">that European powers would no longer colonize or interfere with the affairs of the newly independent nations of the Americas."</font></font></p><p><font size="3">John Quincy Adams liked the idea so much he contacted Monroe and they co-authored the <b><i>Monroe Doctrine</i></b></font><font size="3">. On December 2, 1823 the <b><i>Monroe Doctrine </i></b></font><font size="3">went into effect. It, literally changed the destinies of the people and the new nations of the Western Hemisphere including those small nations of Central America and the Island nations dotting the Caribbean.</font></p><p><font size="3">99 years later, in late 1922 the Motion Picture Industry promoted the idea of minting a Half Dollar to commemorate the 100th birthday of the implementation of the <b><i>Monroe Doctrine</i></b></font><font size="3">. The coin would become available during (and coinciding with) the Motion Picture Exposition in June, 1923.</font></p><p><font size="3">After getting the go ahead for the coin, the Director of the Mint, handed the project to Chester Beach. An idea found fertile ground in Beach's mind. The coin's obverse would feature the heads of Monroe and Adams, but the reverse would feature the Western Hemisphere in a novel way. A special artistic rendition of North and South America would be accomplished by a unique modelling involving two female figures.</font></p><p> </p><p><font size="3">So you can see Beach's idea in full array take a look at the reverse of this <b><i>1923-S</i></b></font><font size="3"> <b><i>Monroe Doctrine Cenntenial Half Dollar </i></b></font><font size="3">(images courtesy of coinpage.com):</font></p><p> </p><p><b><u><b><font size="3">Obverse</font></b></u></b></p><p> </p><p><font size="3"><a href="http://www.coinpage.com/coin-image-6503.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coinpage.com/coin-image-6503.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.coinpage.com/coin-image-6503.html</a></font></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><b><u><b><font size="3">Reverse</font></b></u></b></p><p> </p><p><font size="3"><a href="http://www.coinpage.com/large.php?tImageId=1814" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coinpage.com/large.php?tImageId=1814" rel="nofollow">http://www.coinpage.com/large.php?tImageId=1814</a></font></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><font size="3">Please let me know if you enjoyed this trivia,</font></p><p> </p><p><font size="3">Clinker</font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Clinker, post: 294574, member: 6229"][SIZE=3]Every once in a while an idea reaches the mind of a man who has a position in society to accept the idea and the capacity to do something with it.[/SIZE] [SIZE=3]At President James Monroe's seventh annual State of the Union Address to Congress, he presented his newly acquired idea, "[FONT=Arial]that European powers would no longer colonize or interfere with the affairs of the newly independent nations of the Americas."[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3]John Quincy Adams liked the idea so much he contacted Monroe and they co-authored the [B][I]Monroe Doctrine[/I][/B][/SIZE][SIZE=3]. On December 2, 1823 the [B][I]Monroe Doctrine [/I][/B][/SIZE][SIZE=3]went into effect. It, literally changed the destinies of the people and the new nations of the Western Hemisphere including those small nations of Central America and the Island nations dotting the Caribbean.[/SIZE] [SIZE=3]99 years later, in late 1922 the Motion Picture Industry promoted the idea of minting a Half Dollar to commemorate the 100th birthday of the implementation of the [B][I]Monroe Doctrine[/I][/B][/SIZE][SIZE=3]. The coin would become available during (and coinciding with) the Motion Picture Exposition in June, 1923.[/SIZE] [SIZE=3]After getting the go ahead for the coin, the Director of the Mint, handed the project to Chester Beach. An idea found fertile ground in Beach's mind. The coin's obverse would feature the heads of Monroe and Adams, but the reverse would feature the Western Hemisphere in a novel way. A special artistic rendition of North and South America would be accomplished by a unique modelling involving two female figures.[/SIZE] [SIZE=3]So you can see Beach's idea in full array take a look at the reverse of this [B][I]1923-S[/I][/B][/SIZE][SIZE=3] [B][I]Monroe Doctrine Cenntenial Half Dollar [/I][/B][/SIZE][SIZE=3](images courtesy of coinpage.com):[/SIZE] [B][U][B][SIZE=3]Obverse[/SIZE][/B][/U][/B] [SIZE=3][URL]http://www.coinpage.com/coin-image-6503.html[/URL][/SIZE] [B][U][B][SIZE=3]Reverse[/SIZE][/B][/U][/B] [SIZE=3][URL]http://www.coinpage.com/large.php?tImageId=1814[/URL][/SIZE] [SIZE=3]Please let me know if you enjoyed this trivia,[/SIZE] [SIZE=3]Clinker[/SIZE][/QUOTE]
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