Commemorative Coins of the United States

Appendix II: Index of Subjects on American Commemorative Coinage, 1848-1991
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Appendix II

Index Of Subjects on American Commemorative Coinage 1848-1991

Adams, John Quincy (U.S. president) 1923-S Monroe Doctrine Centennial half dollar.
Agriculture (personification of) 1920 Maine Centennial half dollar.
Alabama (part of outline map) 1935 Old Spanish Trail half dollar.
Alabama Centennial 1921 Alabama Centennial half dollar.
Alamo (Texas shrine) 1934-1938 Texas Centennial half dollar.
Albany, New York 1936 Albany half dollar.
Allen, Ira (founder of Vermont) 1927 Vermont Sesquicentennial half dollar.
American Independence 1926 Sesquicentennial of American Independence half dollar, $2.50.
Americanism (motto) 1951-1954 Carver-Washington half dollar.
Americans (representational group) 1987 Constitution Bicentennial silver dollar. anchor 1920 Maine Centennial half dollar, 1936 Rhode Island Tercentenary half dollar.
Antietam, Battle of 1937 Antietam half dollar.
Antietam, Virginia 1937 Antietam half dollar.
Arkansas Centennial 1935-1939
Arkansas Centennial half dollar.
Armed Freedom (statue atop the Capitol) 1989 Congress Bicentennial half dollar and silver dollar.
arrows (representing war with Indians) 1936 Wisconsin Territorial Centennial half dollar; (part of heraldic eagle motif) 1982 George Washington half dollar, 1984 Olympic $10, 1991 Mount Rushmore silver dollar; (perched eagle holding) 1921 Alabama Centennial half dollar, (two bunches of) 1936 Columbia Sesquicentennial half dollar.
Austin, Stephen F. (Texas hero) 1934-1938 Texas Centennial half dollar.

baby 1936 Elgin Centennial half dollar, 1937 Roanoke half dollar
badger 1936 Wisconsin Territorial Centennial half dollar.
Baltimore, Lord (Cecil Calvert) 1934 Maryland Tercentenary half dollar.

Barnum, Phineas T. 1936 Bridgeport Centennial half dollar.
Battle of Bennington (1777) 1927 Vermont Sesquicentennial half dollar.

bear (grizzly) 1925-S California Diamond Jubilee half dollar, 1935-1936 California-Pacific International Exposition (San Diego) half dollar, 1936-S San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge half dollar.
beaver 1936 Albany half dollar.
belfry 1925 Lexington-Concord Sesquicentennial half dollar
Bennington, Vermont 1927 Vermont Sesquicentennial half dollar.
Bibb, William Wyatt (governor of Alabama) 1921 Alabama Centennial half dollar.
Bible 1920-1921 Pilgrim Tercentenary half dollar, 1936 Rhode Island Tercentenary half dollar.
bison 1991 Mount Rushmore half dollar
Black Fish (Shawnee Indian chief) 1934-1938 Boone Bicentennial half dollar.
Board of Lady Managers (of the World's Columbian Exposition) 1893 Isabella quarter dollar.
Booker T. Washington Birthplace Memorial 1946-1951 Booker T. Washington half dollar.
Boone, Daniel (frontiersman) 1921 Missouri Centennial half dollar, 1934-1938 Boone Bicentennial half dollar.
Bradford, Gov. William (model for Pilgrim motif) 1920-1921 Pilgrim half dollar.
bridge (San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge) 1936-S San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge half dollar, (Burnside Bridge) 1937 Antietam half dollar.
Bridgeport, Connecticut 1936 Bridgeport Centennial half dollar.
Brown's Garrison (Saco, Maine) York County (Maine) Tercentenary half dollar.

buffalo (bison) 1991 Mount Rushmore half dollar
Buffalo, New York Indicated by a star on a map of the Great Lakes on the 1936 Cleveland Centennial half dollar.
Burnside Bridge 1937 Antietam half dollar.
Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar Nunez (explorer) 1935 Old Spanish Trail half dollar.
cabin (slave) 1946-1951 Booker T. Washington half dollar.
caduceus (medical symbol, in this instance representing the fight against yellow fever in Panama) 1915-S Panama-Pacific International Exposition $2.50.
calf 1938 New Rochelle half dollar.
California Diamond Jubilee 1925-S California Diamond Jubilee half dollar.
California Tower 1935-1936 California-Pacific International Exposition (San Diego) half dollar.
California, Los Angeles 1923-S Monroe Doctrine Centennial half dollar, 1983 Olympic silver dollar, 1984 Olympic silver dollar, 1984 Olympic $10.
California, Oakland 1936-S San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge half dollar.
California, San Diego 1935-1936 California-Pacific International Exposition (San Diego) half dollar.
California, San Francisco 1915-S Panama-Pacific half dollar, $1, $2.50, and $50; 1936-S San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge half dollar.
California-Pacific International Exposition 1935-1936 California-Pacific International Exposition (San Diego) half dollar.

Calvert, Cecil (Lord Baltimore, proprietor of Maryland) 1934 Maryland Tercentenary half dollar.
Canada, Toronto Indicated by a star on a map of the Great Lakes on the 1936 Cleveland Centennial half dollar.
canoe 1936 Rhode Island Tercentenary half dollar.
cap (cloth) Panama-Pacific International Exposition gold dollar, 1924 Huguenot-Walloon half dollar; (coonskin) 1921 Missouri Centennial half dollar, 1925 Fort Vancouver Centennial half dollar, 1934-1938 Boone Bicentennial half dollar; (military) 1936 Gettysburg half dollar, 1990 Eisenhower Centennial silver dollar.
capitol building (state) 1936 Columbia half dollar, 1946 Iowa Centennial half dollar.
Capitol Building (U.S.) 1989 Congress Bicentennial half dollar and $5.
Carver, George Washington 1951-1954 Carver-Washington half dollar.
catamount (mountain lion) 1927 Vermont Sesquicentennial half dollar.
Chapel of St. Francis 1935-1936 California-Pacific International Exposition (San Diego) half dollar.
Charter Oak 1935 Connecticut Tercentenary half dollar.
Chicago, Illinois 1892-1893 Columbian half dollar; indicated by a star on a map of the Great Lakes on the 1936 Cleveland Centennial half dollar.
child holding cornucopia 1915-S Panama-Pacific International Exposition half dollar.
chisel 1991 Mount Rushmore $5.
church (Old Swedes Church) 1936 Delaware Tercentenary half dollar; (Chapel of St. Francis) 1935-1936 California-Pacific International Exposition (San Diego) half dollar.
Cincinnati, Ohio 1936 Cincinnati half dollar.
Civil War 1922 Grant half dollar, 1922 Grant gold dollar, 1925 Stone Mountain half dollar, 1936 Gettysburg half dollar, 1937 Antietam half dollar.

Appendix II: Index of Subjects on American Commemorative Coinage, 1848-1991
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