Template:Did you know nominations/Cleveland Centennial half dollar

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The result was: promoted by Allen3 ^talk 19:18, 11 September 2015 (UTC)

Cleveland Centennial half dollar

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... that the Cleveland Centennial half dollar (reverse pictured) was promoted by a man based in Cincinnati?

ALT1:... that the view of the Great Lakes on the Cleveland Centennial half dollar (reverse pictured) has been described as "nothing short of incomprehensible"?
Reviewed: Harvesters (Ancher)

Created by Wehwalt (talk). Nominated by Crisco 1492 (talk) at 15:07, 21 August 2015 (UTC).

Either's fine with me.--Wehwalt (talk) 16:47, 21 August 2015 (UTC)

Sophisticated article, all DYK criteria met. Sorry, I don't like the hooks too much, but perhaps you can convince me. First is boring (at least to me), unless we want to promote Cincinatti. Second is slightly too funny (at least for me). How about only one year to make it easier for collectors (and then not selling). Other suggestions welcome, unless you think the nice properly licensed image will be attractive enough, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:33, 28 August 2015 (UTC)

I'd much rather focus on the oddity of having someone from a completely different city promote the Cleveland dollar. This has been previously commented upon ("Editor Lee Hewitt commented in the Numismatic Scrapbook, 'it seems strange that Mr. Melish, living in Cincinnati, should be the distributor of the Cleveland issue.'"). What is funny about ALT2? — Chris Woodrich (talk) 13:58, 28 August 2015 (UTC)

The "oddity" of it didn't strike me at all, but if you don't mind that readers unfamiliar with relations of US cities may miss it, fine,

, offline sources accepted AGF, I prefer ALT1 though as closer to the picture, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:53, 28 August 2015 (UTC)