Oregon Trail Memorial half dollar
The Oregon Trail Memorial half dollar was a fifty-cent piece struck intermittently by the United States Bureau of the Mint between 1926 and 1939. The coin was designed by Laura Gardin Fraser and James Earle Fraser, and commemorates those who traveled the Oregon Trail and settled the Pacific Coast of the United States in the mid-19th century. Struck over a lengthy period in small numbers per year, the many varieties produced came to be considered a ripoff by coin collectors, and led to the end, for the time, of the commemorative coin series.
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Oregon Trail Memorial half dollar
The Oregon Trail Memorial half dollar was a fifty-cent piece struck intermittently by the United States Bureau of the Mint between 1926 and 1939. The coin was designed by Laura Gardin Fraser and James Earle Fraser, and commemorates those who traveled the Oregon Trail and settled the Pacific Coast of the United States in the mid-19th century. Struck over a lengthy period in small numbers per year, the many varieties produced came to be considered a ripoff by coin collectors, and led to the end, for the time, of the commemorative coin series.
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Le demi-dollar Mémorial de la ...... Unis au milieu du XIXe siècle.
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The Oregon Trail Memorial half ...... widely praised for its design.
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729,954,098
Caption
Laura Fraser's plaster models
composition
* 90.0% silver
* 10.0% copper
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Oregon Trail Memorial half dollar
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Mint marks
D, S. Just to the left of the ...... oins struck without mint mark.
Obverse
Obverse Design
Native American standing in front of a US map
Obverse Design Date
Obverse Designer
Obverse label
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3.15576E9
An act to authorize the coinag ...... luding the city of Washington.
Reverse
Reverse Design
Ox-drawn covered wagon being led west toward the setting sun
Reverse Design Date
Reverse label
Silver troy oz
source
Preamble of the act authorizing the Oregon Trail Memorial half dollar
Thickness
Thickness inch
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Years of Minting
9,223,372,036,854,775,808
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Le demi-dollar Mémorial de la ...... Unis au milieu du XIXe siècle.
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The Oregon Trail Memorial half ...... the commemorative coin series.
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Demi-dollar commémoratif de la piste de l'Oregon
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Oregon Trail Memorial half dollar
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