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Alaska Statehood Act; Long title: An Act to provide for the admission of the State of Alaska into the Union. Enacted by: the 85th United States Congress: Citations; Public law: Pub. L. 85–508: Statutes at Large: 72 Stat. 339: Codification; Titles amended: Title 28—Judiciary and Judicial Procedure: Legislative history
United States Mint engraver George T. Morgan made sketches of a possible design for a $100 coin in 1876, should the half union ever be a success. When the mint concluded that the half union (a gold coin weighing about 2.7 troy ounces or 83.6 grams) was infeasible, the idea of a union coin was discarded and forgotten.
The following table is a list of all 50 states and their respective dates of statehood. The first 13 became states in July 1776 upon agreeing to the United States Declaration of Independence, and each joined the first Union of states between 1777 and 1781, upon ratifying the Articles of Confederation, its first constitution. [6]
Alaska Statehood Act, admitting Alaska as a state in the Union as of January 3, 1959; Hawaii Admission Act, admitting Hawaii as a state in the Union as of August 21, 1959; Federalism in the United States; List of U.S. states by date of admission to the Union; List of U.S. state partition proposals; Perpetual Union; State cessions
President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the Alaska Statehood Act into United States law on July 4, 1958, [18] which paved the way for Alaska's admission into the Union on January 3, 1959. Juneau, the territorial capital , continued as state capital, and William A. Egan was sworn in as the first governor .
In 2015, an MS66-graded coin sold for $822,500, but USA Coin Book indicated a coin in average condition could be worth over $47,000. Even the coin’s melt value is worth something ...
In 1915, the mint issued the Panama–Pacific half union, which had a face value of $50. This was the first time a commemorative coin was produced in a denomination that was not issued for circulation (a half union coin was proposed, but was never released into circulation). The coin was offered in both round and octagonal versions, the latter ...
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