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Press Release May 20, 1974 The fourth in a series of medals commemorating historic customhouses in the United States has been struck by the Treasury Department’s Bureau of the Mint in collaboration with the U.S. Customs Service. The medal features...
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Press Release April 24, 1974 The three winners of the National Bicentennial Coin Design Competition and members of their families met with Mrs. Anne L. Armstrong, Counsellor to the President, and Mr. John W. Warner, Administrator of the American Revolution...
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Press Release April 24, 1974 Counsellor Anne Armstrong, on behalf of the President, today welcomed the Bicentennial Coin Design Competition winners to the White House. In greeting the three artists and their families, Mrs. Armstrong said: “The spirit of the...
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Press Release, Office of the White House Press Secretary April 23, 1974 The President today announced his intention to nominate Mary T. Brooks, of Carey, Idaho, for reappointment as Director of the Mint, Department of the Treasury, for a term...
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Press Release April 15, 1974 Treasury Secretary George P. Shultz announced today that he has approved regulations prohibiting the exportation, melting or treating of pennies, in concurrence with the Federal Reserve Banks. The Coinage Act of 1965 authorizes the Secretary...
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Press Release February 19, 1974 Mrs. Mary Brooks, Director of the Mint, presented Mrs. Richard Nixon today the first strikes of the ten piece America’s First Medals series being produced as part of the U.S. Mint’s coins and medals observance...
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Press Release January 3, 1974 Judging of the 884 entries submitted in the national Bicentennial Coinage Design Competition will commence Wednesday, January 9, 1974, at the United States Mint, Fifth and Arch Streets, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Mrs. Mary Brooks, Director of...
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Press Release October 23, 1973 FOR RELEASE 11:00 A.M. TUESDAY, October 23, 1973 The Department of the Treasury will award $5,000 to each of the three winners of a national competition for reverse designs emblematic of the Bicentennial of the...
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Press Release October 17, 1973 Mrs. Mary Brooks, Director of the Mint, has invited the National Sculpture Society to announce the monetary awards and other details of the national competition to select designs emblematic of the Bicentennial of the American...
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Offered by U.S. Mint at American Numismatic Association Convention in Boston Press Release August 9, 1973 The U.S. Mint has reproduced the first medal authorized by the Continental Congress in the spring of 1776, Mrs. Mary Brooks, Director of the...
