Recent question about advertising classic commemoratives - example of the problem.
RogerB
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Someone recently asked about advertising of earlier classic commemorative coins, including restrictions on using photos or drawings in newspapers. Here's a typical example related to the Alabama centennial.
"October 8, 1921.
Mrs. Marie B. Owen,
Department of Archives and History,
State of Alabama,
Montgomery, Alabama.
Madam:
I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter of October 6th relative to the designs for the Alabama memorial coin. The plaster casts of the designs as approved by the Fine Arts Commission were approved by the Director of the Mint and the Secretary of the Treasury. The casts were forwarded to the mint at Philadelphia where the master die [sic] for the coins are being prepared. The Superintendent of the Mint at Philadelphia has been requested to expedite as much as possible the execution of the coins and it is hoped a supply of the coins will be ready for delivery in time to reach Alabama prior to the visit of the President the latter part of October.
Referring to your request for a picture of both sides of the coin for use with newspaper stories you are advised it would be against the law to reproduce drawings or photographs of coins, and we are therefore unable to provide you with the photographs. The dies and the original drawings become a part of the property of the Government once the designs for the coins are accepted and they cannot be reproduced or utilized for any other purpose than that of coinage. We would, therefore, be unable to give to the Department of Archives and History of Alabama the dies or drawings of this memorial coin.
Respectfully,
M. M. O’Reilly
Acting Director of the Mint."
[NARA-CP entry 235 vol 441]
Comments
I would say that was due to the fear of counterfeits being made.....I think the regulation against coin/currency imaging lasted well into the twentieth century..... Not certain, but recall something about that...Cheers, RickO
This thread is useless without pictures.
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OK. Here's a picture of Marie Susan Bankhead Owen in her younger days (b.1869) --
It is interesting that the program for the 1938 Gettysburg 75th Anniversary reunion shows both sides of that commemorative half-dollar.
https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/1001219/very-cool-exonumia-from-75th-anniversary-of-gettysburg-1938
The US Treasury prohibition on showing paper money in films ended in 1960 at the request of a motion picture director who was making a film about the hotel business.
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I had not heard that. Which movie?