User:RHM22/Early United States commemorative coins
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Early United States commemorative half dollars are commemorative coins minted by the United States Mint in order to honor or promote an event or group. All commemorative half dollars were minted with the intent that all seigniorage would be donated to fund a charitable cause or event, usually an event celebrating the topic of the coin. The first such coin was minted in 1892 to commemorative the quadricentennial of the voyage of Christopher Columbus to the Americas, all the proceeds of which were given the 1892 World's Columbian Exposition fund. The last of the early commemorative coins, this time to honor both Booker T. Washington and George Washington Carver, was issued from 1951 to 1954. The surcharge of this issue was used to "oppose the spread of communism among Negroes, in the interest of national defense."
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