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Little information exists on the preparation of the coinage designs for the York County half dollar. The
Committee for the Commemoration of the Founding of York County, in charge of making the arrangements for
the half dollar, chose Portland artist Walter H. Rich to create the designs. He based the obverse, which depicts
Brown's Garrison, on a sketch published in the book The Proprietors of Saco (1931) by Frank C. Deering, and
the reverse on the seal of York County.
Numismatic author Don Taxay suggested that the Commission of Fine Arts (CFA), to whom Rich's designs
were submitted, was overworked with the many commemorative coins authorized in 1936, and could devote
only scant attention to the York County piece. The commission was charged by a 1921 executive order by President Warren G.
Harding with rendering advisory opinions on public artworks, including coins. On July 24, 1936, the CFA's secretary, H.R. Caemmerer, wrote to Assistant Director of the
Mint Mary M. O'Reilly  On August 1, the Boston Advertiser
that the CFA had met with Rich a week earlier and had approved the designs on condition slight changes to the style of the lettering were made.  reported that final approval had

Henry Morgenthau
been made by Treasury Secretary  .

The sculpting for the coin's design was done by G. S. Pacetti Company of Boston, in brass rather than the usual
plaster, while the dies were reduced from the models by New York City's Medallic Art Company. According
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to Nichols, this was the first time models had been made in brass for a U.S. coin, and provoked much favorable
comment.
Design
As Rich's designs were sculpted in metal rather than the usual plaster, the design has an unusually flat relief more
reminiscent of later (late 20th century onward) designs. The obverse depicts the area of the first European settlement in Maine, with
Brown's Garrison, the Saco River and four sentries before the fort, with one of them mounted. This made the York County half dollar the third U.S. coin to depict a horse,
after the Lafayette dollar Stone Mountain Memorial half dollar  Beyond the fort is the rising sun, and amid the rays is the
(dated 1900) and the   (1925).

word LIBERTY; below the fort is seen the motto E PLURIBUS UNUM . Around the design are seen the name of the issuing nation and the coin's denomination.

On the reverse, the presence of a cross in the York County seal makes this half dolla