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Show MEMORIAL COIN BEING STAMPED WASHINGTON, (U.P.) A new half-dollar piece will he issued hy the United Slates mint early next year. The new 50-cent coin, symlolizing the battles of the old south of the "Lost Cause" and memorializing. President Harding, will be distributed distrib-uted entirely througn the Stone Mountain Monumemni association. About five million will he coined. The memorinl association prepared pre-pared the design for the coins, which are in specific celebration' of thd beginning last year of carving on the mammoth Confederate memorial, being carved in Stone mountain in Georgia. All of the coins will be sold to the association, to be disposed of ns it sees fit. Coinage of the new 50-cent. piece, authorized hy a bill passed last spring nnd approved hy President Coolidge, will get under way as soon as the holiday rush for regular coins is over, mint officials say. |