Bought baseball caps, two for a dollar, commemorating the Olympic Games of Barcelona '92 and Atlanta '96.
Officials unveiled the prototype of the first American coin with readable Braille characters, a silver dollar commemorating the 200th anniversary of the birth of Louis Braille, creator of the alphabet for the blind.
On January 9 , 1925 a bill was introduced in the Senate for a silver half dollar and gold dollar commemorating the Battle of Bennington and the American Revolutionary War-period independence of Vermont.
They turned out to be half dollars commemorating the Oregon Train.
That said, Germany has spent millions of dollars commemorating the Holocaust with monuments, museums and educational initiatives that show no sign of letting up.
This bill allocated $500,000 to exposition authorities, and also authorized a gold dollar to commemorate the fair, with the design and inscriptions left to the discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury.
(More than half of the funds for the building have come from the federal government; the balance has been provided by a star-studded group of private donors, including Michael Jordan, the television producer Shonda Rhimes, and Oprah Winfrey, whose contribution of more than twenty million dollars is commemorated by the museum's Oprah Winfrey Theatre).
In 2006, Morgan's reverse design was used on a silver dollar issued to commemorate the old San Francisco Mint building.
These issues included the Cincinnati Musical Center half dollar, issued to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Cincinnati as a center of music, although nothing out of the ordinary is known to have taken place in that city's musical life in 1886.
On March 5, 1973, Brooks announced that the Mint would be soliciting new reverse designs for the half dollar and dollar to commemorate the 1976 United States Bicentennial.
