1936 Rhode Island Half Dollar

Very nice!

Two new ones for your album, you must have a few others hiding in your collection

Thank you all for your replies.

I do have a few others, of course, they are of the more common
commemorative halves.

1893 Columbian
1918 Illinois
1925 Stone mountain
1946 B. T. Washington
1952 Wasiington - Carver

Then in my 7070 I also have
1925 Lexington - Concord
1918 Illinois (better grade)
1922 Grant

To me sounds pretty sad ... Knowing I have so few, and the
new album needing 50 coins. 43 more coins to go .... Ouch

A new endeavor, but can you stay focused? avoid adding multiple examples of modern coins you already have and you will see this album grow. It is very impressive with each coin of a different design.

A nice example.

Approved by Congress on May 2, 1935 and issued to commemorate the three-hundredth anniversary of the founding of the city of Providence, the first settlement in Rhode Island, by the great leader Roger Williams.

Although this issue was authorized to commemorate the founding of the city of Providence, no mention of the city appears on the coinage.

In the Act authorizing this coinage, there is no mention made of the Mint, and it was the Director of the Mint who determined whether the coinage should be prepared at one or more mints. This Act also authorized the coinage of the Hudson coin.

Appropriate celebrations were held throughout Rhode Island during the Tercentenary year, and a special postage stamp was released.

The work on the design was done in the old John Stevens Shop in Newport, Rhode Island which has been in continuous existence as a stone-cutting shop since 1705, and in the present building on Thames Street since the Revolution. It was in this shop that Benson, who was an instructor in lettering at the Rhode Island Schools of Design, puttered around as a youth and learned letter carving before studying in New York and abroad. It was this same shop which he purchased outright in 1927, carried on the old traditions, established by the Stevens family, of craftsmanship and beauty in stone cutting.


John Stevens Shop in Newport, RI. Image courtesy of Nicholas Benson who is the grandson of John Howard Benson one of the original designers of the coin.


Carey, who also comes of a family long associated with Newport - his grandfather presented the Carey School to the city - was a designer, silversmith and lecturer.

This is awesome!