Gadsden Purchase half dollar
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The Gadsden Purchase half dollar was a proposed commemorative coin to be issued by the United States Bureau of the Mint. Legislation for the half dollar passed both houses of Congress in 1930 but was
L.W. Hoffecker
Congressman Randolph Perkins
President Herbert Hoover
Gadsden Purchase
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The Gadsden Purchase, also known as the Treaty of Mesilla, is a 29,640-square-mile region of present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico that the United States acquired from Mexico. The f
Gadsden Purchase half dollar
…veto of Hoover's presidency and the first ever for a commemorative coin bill. The proposal to commemorate the 1854 congressional ratification of the Gadsden Purchase was the brainchild of El Paso coin dealer Lyman W. Hoffecker, who wanted a commemorative coin he could control and distribute. He gained the support…
c. 1831 portrait of James Gadsden by Charles Fraser
U.S. Secretary of State James Buchanan (1791–1868), who later became 15th President of the United States (1857–1861)
Isthmus of Tehuantepec in southern Mexico
The Gadsden Purchase historical marker near Interstate 10