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Herbert Hoover: The growing practice of issuing commemorative coins, incidentally to be sold at a profit and provide funds for projects…

On the recordApril 20, 1930
The growing practice of issuing commemorative coins, incidentally to be sold at a profit and provide funds for projects or celebrations, appears to me to run counter to this principle and by their multiplicity to have become a misuse of our coinage system.
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Herbert Hoover
Republican · California

Editor's note · Context

Veto of a Coinage Bill Commemorating the Gadsden Purchase.

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