Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates/Missouri Centennial half dollar/archive1

TFA blurb review
FWIW, I've just posted blurbs for all the other FACs that were promoted in September 2018 that haven't run yet at TFA. This one is Wehwalt's. - Dank (push to talk) 17:16, 24 November 2019 (UTC)
 * I will write something up or other. Probably tonight/tomorrow.--Wehwalt (talk) 17:28, 24 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks, I'm happy either way. FWIW John and I will be doing more blurbs this week. - Dank (push to talk) 17:37, 24 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Sorry for the delay and thanks for you guys' work on those. This might be a few characters short, let me know if I need to pad it.--Wehwalt (talk) 12:39, 26 November 2019 (UTC)

The Missouri Centennial half dollar is a commemorative fifty-cent piece struck by the United States Bureau of the Mint in 1921. It was designed by Robert Ingersoll Aitken. The U.S. state of Missouri wanted a coin to mark its centennial that year. Authorizing legislation passed through Congress without opposition, and was signed on March 4, 1921 by President Warren G. Harding on his inauguration day. The federal Commission of Fine Arts hired Aitken to design the coin, which depicted Daniel Boone on both sides. The reverse design, showing Boone with a Native American, was likely intended to symbolize the displacement of the Indians by white settlers. To increase sales, a portion of the issue was produced with the mark 2★4, symbolic of Missouri being the 24th state. Although admired for the design, the coins did not sell as well as hoped, and almost 60 percent were returned to the Philadelphia Mint for melting.


 * Length is good, 939. Thanks much. - Dank (push to talk) 13:09, 26 November 2019 (UTC)