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Original United States Air Force Airman's coin. The front of a U.S. Marine Corps birthday ball medallion Huguenot méreau used as a challenge coin during 17th century Protestant persecution in France. A challenge coin is a small coin or medallion, bearing an organization's insignia or emblem and carried by the organization's members ...
Women in Military Service for America Memorial dollar [27] Servicewomen representing the five branches of the United States military Approved design of the Women In Military Service for America Memorial: Ag 90%, Cu 10% Authorized: 500,000 (max) Uncirculated: 53,054 W Proof: 213,201 P 1994 $1: U.S. Capitol Bicentennial dollar [28] View of the ...
In 1925, a commemorative 50-cent coin was released that showed Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson. Money raised from the sale of the coins was combined with money raised by the United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Stone Mountain Confederate Memorial Association in order to fund the carving of a Confederate monument at Stone Mountain. [6]
The Coinage Act of 1792 established the United States Mint and regulated the coinage of the United States. [3] The act created coins in the denominations of Half Cent (1/200 of a dollar), Cent (1/100 of a dollar, or a cent), Half Dime (also known as a half disme) (five cents), Dime (also known as a disme) (10 cents), Quarter (25 cents), Half Dollar (50 cents), Dollar, Quarter Eagle ($2.50 ...
Using the new coins—and the independent dating of the coins, thanks to additional artifacts found nearby—to help highlight those style shifts should help set up a distinct timeline for the daric.
Coin Obverse design Reverse design Composition Mintage Available Obverse Reverse 50¢ Pilgrim Tercentenary half dollar Governor William Bradford, 1921 in field The Mayflower: 90% Ag, 10% Cu Uncirculated: 100,053 (P) [3] 1921 50¢ Missouri Centennial half dollar: Daniel Boone: Boone with a Native American 90% Ag, 10% Cu Authorized: 250,000 (max ...
On History Channel's hit show "Pawn Stars," a man came in to sell a 1907 Saint-Gaudens double eagle $20 gold coin. The coins are extremely rare, and some of them have sold for more than $1 million ...
A Guide Book of United States Coins (the Red Book) is the longest running price guide for U.S. coins. Across all formats, 24 million copies have been sold. [2] The first edition, dated 1947, went on sale in November 1946. Except for a one-year hiatus in 1950, publication has continued to the present.