1893 Columbian Half Dollar
Coinseeker82
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I'm excited about this one. The reverse side has a lot of detail. I tried to take good pics but they don't do this coin justice. All info would be awesome. Thanks.
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What information are you looking for? There is plenty of info about the issue readily available online, and if that's what you're after, a quick search or visit to CoinFacts will turn it up. If you're looking for information about something related to your specific piece, what do you want to know?
Got ya. Is it in good enough shape to bring more than regular price?
The Columbian half dollar is a coin issued by the Bureau of the Mint in 1892 and 1893. The first traditional 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.
Nope.
"It's like God, Family, Country, except Sticker, Plastic, Coin."
Absolutely not. It is a very ordinary Columbian half.
Good pictures though!
I have gotten some of these in junk silver.
Your pictures are fine and do enough justice for the coin. It's a typical, circulated Columbian half dollar. Nice coin, but not worth a premium. It's probably a $20 retail coin.
See http://www.doubledimes.com for a free online reference for US twenty-cent pieces
But the good news is that it's a great coin to have with lots of history behind it to learn about.
Maybe a bit off topic, but if you are into that kind of thing read "Devil in the White City" by Erik Larsen. It is a true story of a serial killer and the Columbian Exposition. I am not really into commemoratives but had to have a couple of these for the connection to the exposition.
Keep in mind that there are prices for a wide range of grades. As prices get further apart from one grade to the next there's more wiggle room to have a range of prices based on how nice a given coin is for the grade, but on the flip side, when prices for coins of adjacent grades aren't that far apart, the prices for each grade become a bit more standardized. All that is to say that for more coins, there isn't necessarily a "regular price" because a price is only good or bad relative to the grade. It's like asking if there's a regular price for beef, but neglecting that some of it is ground, and then you have a brisket or rib eye or fillet mignon. Beef on the whole can't have a regular price, but each cut can based on the quality of each particular piece.
Once again very good information. The coin has tremendous history. It's one hell of a conversation piece. Thanks for the lesson!! I just love the coin for the obverse. Beautiful and detailed. It's worth more than money for the artwork and history.
Those are very common so the spread between VF and MS is all tied to silver prices. Even an attractive UNC like this is less than 100$
11.5$ Southern Dollars, The little “Big Easy” set
Tremendous history is correct and it is in honor of the guy that brought the plague and small pox to native North Americans
Oh and the reverse is an image of the ship that housed the infected rats, guns and other goodies brought by the Spaniards.
I really want to get a very nice NT MS example, but the eye appeal of this (that wonderful circ-cam Look!) will do for now.
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I try to look at it from the bright side; No Columbus, no me......Or any of us for that matter. 🗽
I would love to buy one of these at junk silver price. I never seen any for that price at the shows I attend.
Start with a red book and then learn to surf eBay. Both excellent sources of information and approximate value. Goggle is handy 🤓
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I am currently reading his book on the Lusitania "Dead Wake." Another fine read.
Because God knows that the indigenous people never fought or argued with one another and no one ever became ill. It was heaven! Blast that evil Columbus. I say we melt every last coin, make a statue with the metal and tear it down.
This place need the OF back. So Chesterb and post his feelings and the rest of the board could flame him if they wanted too.
Bring back the OF! It wasnt for the thin skinned)
Martin
It's a beautiful commemorative that I try to purchase for a few dollars over melt and then use to fill those "impossible" holes in my coin albums for coins that are extremely rare to unique such as the 1866-P no motto, 1842 small date, small letters, and the 1853-O without arrows in the Seated Liberty halves. I also use them (as well as Oregon commemoratives) for rare dates that I have only in TPG slabs.
They look better to me than this... (the empty holes)
Or this
Sorry, I have no pictures of my LSH album with these placers in place at the moment. I've also thought about filling a Dansco "Half Dollars" album with nice Columbian halves.
I have always liked the Columbian half dollar... was a thrill to get one in change when I was a kid with a paper route.... Got a couple of them during those years.
@chesterb ... Columbus never set foot in North America, so those issues belong to people who came after. Cheers, RickO
When my grandfather died around 1965 don’t remember exactly I got a few coins he had saved from my grandmother. I traded all ( I feel like 💩 that I did that) except one a Columbian that looks like yours. I still have it.