The Monroe Doctrine Centennial half dollar was a fifty-cent piece struck by the United States Bureau of the Mint. Bearing portraits of former U.S. Presidents James Monroe and John Quincy Adams, the co
Monroe Doctrine Centennial half dollar obverse
Monroe Doctrine Centennial half dollar reverse
President James Monroe
A scandal involving actress Mabel Normand was one event which led to the issuance of the Monroe Doctrine Centennial half dollar.
Mary Margaret O'Reilly
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Mary Margaret O'Reilly was an American civil servant who served as the assistant director of the United States Bureau of the Mint from 1924 until 1938. One of the United States government's highest-ra
Monroe Doctrine Centennial half dollar
…available at an early date. On February 24, 1923, commission secretary Hans Caemmerer showed the completed models to Assistant Director of the Mint Mary Margaret O'Reilly, who was pleased with them. O'Reilly suggested that if Beach was certain there would be no further changes, that he send photographs of the models to…
O'Reilly in the 1910s
O'Reilly and C.M. Hester, Treasury Assistant General Counsel, testify before Congress, August 1935