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1940 it confuses me..i understand we minted these during the war....why I have no idea   |
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The Philippines was a US territory from 1898 to 1946 and Manila, where your coin was struck, was the only branch mint located outside of the United States. During WWII, Filipino coins were minted in San Francisco and Denver with the appropriate mintmark.
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Another interesting thing about the Philippines km177 1 Peso (1936) Roosevelt & Quezon  A coin that says United States of America... with the image of a sitting president? I thought they had to be dead before they could be put on a coin  |
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that is strange...i was at clark field..72-74
I was on the flight line holding a sign that said welcome home...when the pow's were released
saw the live footage of the guy that tried to kill emelia Marcos.. the P.C. machine gunned him down on live news
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Quote:A coin that says United States of America... with the image of a sitting president? I thought they had to be dead before they could be put on a coin That's just tradition, not law. And commemorative coins have traditionally been exempted from this tradition. Calvin Coolidge was the first president to do so, appearing while he was still president on the 1926 sesquicentennial half dollar, and that was an actual US coin, not a "colonial" one. Even now there is no law specifically preventing a living person, president or commoner, from appearing on a coin. The only law I've seen people quote in this regard is the law instituting and regulating the US Presidential dollars series; click here and scroll down to subsection n2E, about 1/3 of the way down. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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As for another living American featured on a Filipino coin, Douglas MacArthur was portrayed on the 1947 50 Centavos and One Peso. The Philippines became an independent nation in 1946 but the two MacArthur coins were struck in San Francisco with the S mintmark.
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Quote:Even now there is no law specifically preventing a living person, president or commoner, from appearing on a coin. The only law I've seen people quote in this regard is the law instituting and regulating the US Presidential dollars series; click here and scroll down to subsection n2E, about 1/3 of the way down. Thought there was a blanket law somewhere...might be wrong, probably am. However, if you search that section of the USC, you find: Quote:No head and shoulders portrait or bust of any person, living or dead, and no portrait of a living person may be included in the design of any quarter dollar under this subsection.[quote] - ATB QuartersAnd: [quote]No coin issued under this subsection may bear the image of a living former or current President, or of any deceased former President during the 2-year period following the date of the death of that President. - Presidential dollars |
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I always figured it was if not put into law than just agreed upon that if a sitting president had their face on a coin it would be too much like the monarch of Britain being on all the coins.
Kind of a political move to let people know that the president wasn't getting a swelled head.
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