1893 Columbian Silver Half-dollar

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  • Lot number 1442208
  • Total views 22
  • Total bids 21
  • Winning bid $38.33
  • Buyer's premium $6.52
  • Total $44.85
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Denomination: Fifty Cents

Type: 50C Columbian

Year: 1893

Designer: Charles E. Barber. / George T. Morgan

Weight: 12.50 grams

Diameter: 30.60 millimeters

Composition: 90% Silver, 10% Copper

Edge: Reeded

The Columbian half dollar is a coin issued by the Bureau of the Mint in 1892 and 1893. The first United States commemorative coin, it was issued both to raise funds for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition and to mark the quadricentennial of the first voyage to the Americas of Christopher Columbus, whose portrait it bears. The Columbian half dollar was the first American coin to depict a historical person.

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