Wikipedia:WikiProject Numismatics/newsletter/September 2019

 WikiProject news and updates from the past month (past month here)

Featured articles
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Long Island Tercentenary half dollar

Member news
 * There were no new members in August

Miscellaneous
 * Louisiana Purchase Sesquicentennial half dollar will be today's featured article on September 26.
 * Old Spanish Trail half dollar (discussion) is currently under review for Featured Article status. Users are encouraged to participate in the discussion.

Did You Know...


 * ... that the Continental Currency dollar coin (obverse pictured), the first pattern coin of the United States, was designed by Benjamin Franklin? (August 14, 2019)
 * ... that the 2020 Basketball Hall of Fame commemorative coins may become the United States Mint's first color coinage? (August 29, 2019)

This month in numismatics
 * August 5, 1928, numismatist Walter H. Breen was born in San Antonio, Texas.
 * August 13, 1983, the first US coins to bear the "W" mint mark were struck.

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