Commemorative Coins of the United States

Appendix II: Index of Subjects on American Commemorative Coinage, 1848-1991
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Georgia, Stone Mountain 1925 Stone Mountain half dollar.
Gettysburg, Battle of 1936 Gettysburg half dollar.
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania 1936 Gettysburg half dollar, 1990 Eisenhower silver dollar.
Glass, Carter 1936 Lynchburg Sesquicentennial half dollar.
globes (Two hemispheres of the world) 1892-1893 Columbian half dollar.
Goddess of Music 1936 Cincinnati half dollar.
gold (panning for) 1925-S California Diamond Jubilee half dollar; (miner with pickaxe) 1935-1936 California-Pacific International Exposition (San Diego) half dollar.
Golden Gate (entrance to San Francisco Bay) 1915-S Panama-Pacific International Exposition half dollar.
Grant, Ulysses S. (U.S. president) 1922 Grant half dollar; 1922 Grant gold dollar. Great Lakes Exposition 1936 Cleveland Centennial half dollar.
grizzly bear 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.
gun 1921 Missouri Centennial half dollar, 1925 Fort Vancouver Centennial half dollar, 1925 Lexington-Concord Sesquicentennial half dollar, 1934-1938 Boone Bicentennial half dollar, 1936 Elgin Centennial half dollar, 1936 Rhode Island half dollar, 1991 Korean War silver dollar
Half Moon (ship) 1935 Hudson Sesquicentennial half dollar.
Hall of Fame 1946-1951 Booker T. Washington half dollar.
Hawaii 1928 Hawaiian Sesquicentennial half dollar.
Hawaiian Sesquicentennial 1928 Hawaiian Sesquicentennial half dollar.
Here We Rest (motto) 1921 Alabama Centennial half dollar.
hippocampus (mythical animal) 1915-S Panama-Pacific International Exposition $2.50.
Hope (motto) 1936 Rhode Island Tercentenary half dollar.
horse (part of equestrian statue of Marquis de Lafayette) 1900 Lafayette silver dollar; (Lee and Jackson on horseback) 1925 Stone Mountain half dollar; York County (Maine) Tercentenary half dollar; (Washington on horseback) 1982 Washington half dollar. house (Grant's boyhood home) 1922 Grant half dollar, 1922 Grant gold dollar; (Mount Vernon) 1982 Washington half dollar; (Eisenhower home in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania) 1990 Eisenhower silver dollar.
House of Representatives (U.S.) 1989 Congress Bicentennial dollar.
Houston, Gen. Sam (Texas hero) 1934-1938 Texas Centennial half dollar.
Hudson, New York 1935 Hudson Sesquicentennial half dollar.
Hudson's Bay Company 1925 Fort Vancouver Centennial half dollar.
Huguenot-Walloon Tercentenary 1924 Huguenot-Walloon half dollar.
Illinois, Chicago 1892-1893 Columbian half dollar; Indicated by a star on a map of the Great Lakes on the 1936 Cleveland Centennial half dollar.
Illinois, Elgin 1936 Elgin Centennial half dollar.
Illinois, state of 1918 Illinois Centennial half dollar.
immigrants, immigration 1986 Statue of Liberty half dollar, 1986 Statue of Liberty silver dollar, 1986 Statue of Liberty $5.
Independence Hall (philadelphia) 1926 Sesquicentennial of American Independence $2.50.
Indian 1921 Missouri Centennial half dollar; 1926-1939 Oregon Trail half dollar; 1934- 1938 Boone Bicentennial half dollar; 1935-1939 Arkansas Centennial half dollar; 1936 Long Island Tercentenary half dollar; 1936 Rhode Island Tercentenary half dollar; (arrows representing war with) 1936 Wisconsin Territorial Centennial half dollar.
Iowa Capitol (Old Stone Capitol at Iowa City) 1946 Iowa Centennial half dollar.
Iowa Centennial 1946 Iowa Centennial half dollar.
Iowa City, Iowa 1946 Iowa Centennial half dollar.
Iowa, Iowa City 1946 Iowa Centennial half dollar.
iris 1938 New Rochelle half dollar.
Isabella, Queen (Queen of Spain who financed Columbus' voyage) 1893 Isabella quarter dollar.
Jackson, General Thomas ("Stonewall") 1925 Stone Mountain half dollar.
Jefferson, Thomas (U.S. president) 1903-dated Louisiana Purchase Exposition gold dollar; 1991 Mount Rushmore half dollar, silver dollar, and $5.
Justice (goddess of) 1936 Columbia half dollar.
Kahoolawe (Hawaiian island) 1928 Hawaiian Sesquicentennial half dollar. Kalmar Nyckel (ship) 1936 Delaware Tercentenary half dollar.
Kauai (Hawaiian island) 1928 Hawaiian Sesquicentennial half dollar.
Kilby, Thomas E. (Governor of Alabama) 1921 Alabama Centennial half dollar. Korean War 1991 Korean War silver dollar
Labor (personification of; part of Maryland State Seal) 1934 Maryland Tercentenary half dollar.
laborer 1915-S Panama-Pacific International Exposition gold dollar.
Lafayette (Marquis de Lafayette, French hero of the American Revolution) 1900 Lafayette silver dollar.
Lanai (Hawaiian island) 1928 Hawaiian Sesquicentennial half dollar.
Lazarus, Emma (quotation from poem of) 1986 Statue of Liberty silver dollar.
lead ore 1936 Wisconsin Territorial Centennial half dollar.
Lee, Gen. Robert E. 1925 Stone Mountain half dollar; 1937 Antietam half dollar.
Lewis and Clark Exposition. Part of inscription on obverse of 1904-1905 Lewis and Clark Exposition gold dollar.
Lewis, Meriwether (American explorer) Portrait on obverse of 1904-1905 Lewis and Clark Exposition gold dollar.
Lexington, Massachusetts 1925 Lexington-Concord Sesquicentennial half dollar. Liberty Bell 1926 Sesquicentennial of American Independence half dollar.
Liberty, Miss 1848 CAL. $2.50, 1915-S Panama-Pacific International Exposition half dollar, 1926 Sesquicentennial of American Independence $2.50, 1935-1939 Arkansas Centennial half dollar, 1936 Lynchburg Sesquicentennial half dollar.
Lincoln, Abraham (U.S. president) 1918 Illinois Centennial half dollar, 1991 Mount Rushmore half dollar, silver dollar, and $5.
Livingston, Robert 1936 Albany half dollar.

Long Island Tercentenary 1936 Long Island Tercentenary half dollar.
Long Island, New York 1936 Long Island Tercentenary half dollar.
Lord Baltimore (Cecil Calvert) 1934 Maryland Tercentenary half dollar.
Los Angeles Coliseum. 1984 Olympic silver dollar.
Los Angeles, California 1923-S Monroe Doctrine Centennial half dollar; 1983 Olympic silver dollar, 1984 Olympic silver dollar, 1984 Olympic $10.
Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904) 1903-dated Louisiana Purchase Exposition gold dollar.
Louisiana (part of outline map) 1935 Old Spanish Trail half dollar.
Lynchburg Courthouse 1936 Lynchburg Sesquicentennial half dollar.
Lynchburg, Virginia 1936 Lynchburg Sesquicentennial half dollar.
lyre 1936 Cincinnati half dollar.
mace (Royal Mace of Norfolk) 1936 Norfolk Bicentennial half dollar; (of the House of Representatives) 1989 Congress Bicentennial dollar.
Maine, state of 1920 Maine Centennial half dollar.
Maine, York County. York County (Maine) Tercentenary half dollar. mallet 1991 Mount Rushmore $5.

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