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United States Sesquicentennial half dollar: George Washington and Calvin Coolidge: Liberty Bell: 90% Ag, 10% Cu Authorized: 1,000,000 (max) Uncirculated: 1,000,528 (P) [21] 1926 $2.50: United States Sesquicentennial quarter eagle Liberty, bearing a scroll representing the United States Declaration of Independence and a torch
At the insistence of the Sesquicentennial Commission, the coins were minted in very shallow relief, and thus struck up poorly. [12] Coin dealer and numismatic author Q. David Bowers opined, "from the standpoint of aesthetic appeal the [half dollar] is at the bottom of the popularity charts along with the 1923-S Monroe half dollar". [24]
In 1916, the idea for a Sesquicentennial Exposition stemmed from the mind of John Wanamaker, who was the only living member of the Centennial Exposition's Finance Committee. [1] At the time Philadelphia was a booming city, in terms of size and opportunity; however, it suffered from corruption on political and financial fronts.
The coin was originally intended to be produced for one year to commemorate the end of World War I, although the design proved popular and continued to be produced until silver dollar production ended in 1935. [17] In 1975 and 1976, the Eisenhower dollar was issued for circulation, among other commemorative coins in those years.
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The soon-to-follow Coinage Act of 1837 established a fineness of .900, [1] meaning that 1837 and later quarter eagles contain 0.121 troy ounces (0.133 oz; 3.8 g) of gold content. Relatively few coins were struck prior to 1834, owing to their higher gold content (promoting melting for their bullion content).
The Lexington–Concord Sesquicentennial half dollar, sometimes the Lexington–Concord half dollar or Patriot half dollar, is a commemorative fifty-cent piece struck by the United States Bureau of the Mint in 1925 in honor of the 150th anniversary of the Battles of Lexington and Concord, which began the American Revolutionary War.
The obverse contains a representation of Senator Carter Glass, making the Lynchburg Sesquicentennial half dollar the third U.S. coin to depict a living person, and the first to show one alone—the earlier two, the Alabama Centennial half dollar (1921) and the U.S. Sesquicentennial half dollar (1926), depict jugate busts of a living person, a ...