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The Booker T. Washington Memorial half dollar was designed by Isaac Scott Hathaway and minted in silver between 1946 and 1951. The obverse depicts Booker T. Washington.The reverse shows the cabin in which Washington was born, now the Booker T. Washington National Monument, and the Hall of Fame for Great Americans, in which Washington is honored.
Coin Obverse design Reverse design Composition Mintage Available Obverse Reverse 50¢ Booker T. Washington Memorial half dollar: Booker T. Washington: Hall of Fame for Great Americans and a log cabin 90% Ag, 10% Cu: Authorized: 5,000,000 (max 1946-1951 total) Uncirculated: 12,004 12,004 D 512,091 S [1] 1950
The George Washington Carver-Booker T. Washington Half Dollar was designed by Isaac Scott Hathaway.The obverse depicts side-portraits of George Washington Carver and Booker T. Washington and the reverse shows a simple outline map of the United States of America superimposed with the letters "U.S.A.", and the words "Freedom and Opportunity for All/Americanism" around the rim.
Some of the most expensive coins ever sold at auction were minted in the U.S., many within the past century. ... 1950 and 1951 Dr. Booker T. Washington Half Dollars — Generally valued between ...
In 1946, he was honored on the first coin to feature an African American, the Booker T. Washington Memorial half dollar, which was minted by the United States until 1951. [ 77 ] On April 5, 1956, the hundredth anniversary of Washington's birth, the house where he was born in Franklin County, Virginia was designated as the Booker T. Washington ...
The 1926 United States Sesquicentennial half dollar was the second United States coin to feature a living person at the time of its minting. The obverse of the coin featured busts of George Washington and Calvin Coolidge. [7] (The first was the 1921 Alabama Centennial half dollar, which showed a bust of then-Governor Thomas Kilby.) Coolidge ...