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The Louisiana Purchase Sesquicentennial half dollar was a proposed United States commemorative coin. Intended to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Louisiana Purchase (1803), the coin was lobbied for by the Missouri Historical Society and their numismatist director Eric P. Newman (pictured), and also by the Louisiana Purchase 150th Anniversary Association of New Orleans, who hoped to sell the entire coin issue themselves at a profit. When the House of Representatives held a hearing on the half dollar, the bill was opposed by the Assistant Director of the Mint, F. Leland Howard. The legislation passed both houses of Congress, but was vetoed in 1954 by President Dwight Eisenhower. Congress had authorized many commemoratives in the 1930s, but few after that, and the Treasury Department was strongly against their issue. Congress made no attempt to override Eisenhower's vetoes, and no commemorative coins were authorized or issued by the United States after 1954 until a new issue was struck in 1982. (Full article...)
Just a suggested blurb ... thoughts and edits are welcome. - Dank (push to talk) 19:49, 24 July 2019 (UTC)