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The half dollar, sometimes referred to as the half for short or 50-cent piece, is a United States coin worth 50 cents, or one half of a dollar.In both size and weight, it is the largest circulating coin currently minted in the United States, [1] being 1.205 inches (30.61 millimeters) in diameter and 0.085 in (2.16 mm) in thickness, and is twice the weight of the quarter.
Lettered Edge, 1807–1836 (Silver) Year Mint Mintage [4] Comments 1807 (P) 750,500 Small/large stars, 50 over 20, and Bearded Liberty varieties. 1808
Matron Head large cent, 1816–1839 (Copper except as noted) Year Mint Mintage Comments 1816 (P) 2,820,982 1817 (P) 3,948,400 (P) 5 Proof 1818
Seal of the president of the United States surrounded by 50 stars 1964–1974, 1977–present 5: limited 6: half, half dollar, 50-cent piece Independence Hall (1975) 1976 5: $1: 38.1 mm (1.500 in) 2.58 mm (0.102 in) 22.68 g (0.8 oz) (350 gr) reeded Dwight D. Eisenhower: Apollo 11 mission insignia 1971–1974, 1977–1978 limited
50 cents is a coinage value in many systems using decimal currencies. Examples include: Australian fifty-cent coin; 50-cent piece (Canadian coin) 50 euro cent coin; Half dollar (United States coin) Half guilder coin (Netherlands) Hong Kong fifty-cent coin
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]
Actual production of the 50-cent piece was delayed as the Mint struggled to finalize Weinman's Mercury dime. [40] On September 6, production of the dime was halted as companies testing the new 10-cent piece found that the new pieces would not work in vending machines. The defect was found to be a "fin", excess metal at the edge of the coin ...
The Columbia, South Carolina, Sesquicentennial half dollar was a commemorative fifty-cent piece struck by the United States Bureau of the Mint.Designed by Abraham Wolfe Davidson and minted in 1936, it marks the 150th anniversary of the designation of Columbia as South Carolina's state capital.