Episode 2173
Roanoke Island, North Carolina, half dollar
Mon, 2023-Apr-17 00:00 UTC
Length - 2:32
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The featured article for Monday, 17 April 2023 is Roanoke Island, North Carolina, half dollar.
The Roanoke Island, North Carolina, half dollar (also Roanoke Island half dollar) is a commemorative coin issued by the United States Bureau of the Mint in 1937. The coin commemorated the 350th anniversary of the Roanoke Colony, depicting Sir Walter Raleigh on one side, and Eleanor Dare on the other, holding her child, Virginia Dare, the first child of English descent born in an English colony in the Americas.
The Roanoke Island half dollar was one of many commemorative issues authorized by Congress in 1936. Since it was intended to commemorate the 350th anniversary of the colony, founded in 1587, the coins were not stuck until 1937. William Marks Simpson, a sculptor who created several commemorative coins of the era, designed the Roanoke Island issue. His work required only slight modification at the recommendation of the Commission of Fine Arts.
The legislation allowed the Roanoke Memorial Association to buy at least 25,000 at a time, so long as the issue took place before July 1937, and the group placed two orders for the minimum amount. Eventually, 21,000 were returned to the Mint for redemption and melting. The Roanoke Island issue catalogs in the low hundreds of dollars.
This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 00:00 UTC on Monday, 17 April 2023.
For the full current version of the article, see Roanoke Island, North Carolina, half dollar on Wikipedia.
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