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<p>[QUOTE="kaparthy, post: 3541117, member: 57463"]But there are other reasons for commemoratives. The Washington Quarter, the Jefferson Nickel, and the Lincoln Cent could have been one-year issues. In our time we had the Bicentennial coins, and then the 50-State program and now the National Parks program.</p><p><br /></p><p>Common are they are, anyone can have one, or a collector might want a Proof or Proof 70.</p><p><br /></p><p>It does raise the issue of who or what is a worthy cause. It is hard to deny the Girl Scouts or the Marines but it really is not the job of the US Mint to raise money for them. I think that the Bridgeport Connecticut Commemorative just about sums it up.</p><p><br /></p><p>[added...]</p><p><br /></p><p>So, I went to the Blue Book (first reach) and looked up the infamous Cincinnati Commemorative. Then, I read about the Cleveland coin in Wikipedia. Being from Cleveland, I had no idea that the date 1836 was so important to some people. We celebrated the Bicentennial of the founding in 1996. We had three six-week sessions of Ohio history in the 3rd and then the 8th grades. We learned of the founding in 1796. The war with Brooklyn, the lost settlers of Chagrin (sad that they were not actually on the Cuyahoga River), and all that, we learned. 1836? I dunno; the Alamo maybe? The city flag says <b>"1796"</b> not 1836.</p><p>[ATTACH]941161[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>But it was not for any civic organization at all. It was for the personal profit of Thomas Melish.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="kaparthy, post: 3541117, member: 57463"]But there are other reasons for commemoratives. The Washington Quarter, the Jefferson Nickel, and the Lincoln Cent could have been one-year issues. In our time we had the Bicentennial coins, and then the 50-State program and now the National Parks program. Common are they are, anyone can have one, or a collector might want a Proof or Proof 70. It does raise the issue of who or what is a worthy cause. It is hard to deny the Girl Scouts or the Marines but it really is not the job of the US Mint to raise money for them. I think that the Bridgeport Connecticut Commemorative just about sums it up. [added...] So, I went to the Blue Book (first reach) and looked up the infamous Cincinnati Commemorative. Then, I read about the Cleveland coin in Wikipedia. Being from Cleveland, I had no idea that the date 1836 was so important to some people. We celebrated the Bicentennial of the founding in 1996. We had three six-week sessions of Ohio history in the 3rd and then the 8th grades. We learned of the founding in 1796. The war with Brooklyn, the lost settlers of Chagrin (sad that they were not actually on the Cuyahoga River), and all that, we learned. 1836? I dunno; the Alamo maybe? The city flag says [B]"1796"[/B] not 1836. [ATTACH]941161[/ATTACH] But it was not for any civic organization at all. It was for the personal profit of Thomas Melish.[/QUOTE]
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