Post Your "Silver Commemorative Half Dollar" With Its Original Packaging!

boyernumismatics

Hi all! I've been away from here for a while, I guess I just never felt like logging in, haha. Anyway, I have recently been chipping away at my Silver Commemorative Half Dollar 50-slot Whitman album (includes Isabella 25c and Lafayette $1, so please include those if you happen to have them!). A few days ago, I won an auction that included the original packaging and coin of the 1936 P Bridgeport, CT Centennial commissioned by the Bridgeport Centennial, Inc. Finance Committee. I got to thinking, I want to try,to be best of my ability, to get as many original packaging and coins as I possibly can! Call me crazy, but I feel like I would be cheating myself if I don't reunite/ have the packaging for the coin! It's going to be like looking for a needle in a haystack (49 more times over), but I'm up for the challenge!

I thought it could do me and anyone else interested in seeing the coins and the original packaging if we made a forum post where we could all post what we have (commemorative and packaging combination, not just the coin) so we have an idea of what we would be looking for.

I'll start it off and upload the photos from my phone once I get them done and edited. If any of you have anything that could be of help, please feel free to post away!

Best of luck,

Sean with Boyernumismatics~~~

boyernumismatics

Here are my photos: The box base measures 2 7/16 x 2 3/4 inches.

BillJones

I have commemative coins and the packages in which some of them came but they are not with their orignal packages. If you need to have that, this will be a short thread.

boyernumismatics

@BillJones said:
I have commemative coins and the packages in which some of them came but they are not with their orignal packages. If you need to have that, this will be a short thread.

I would have thought more people would have some insight/ interest than just me, lol! I was just trying to make a friendly and helpful thread, that's all. Show off what you've got, since the original packaging is rare!

Td337

Not mine, but this Cleveland in original holder on Great Collections is super cool...

https://www.greatcollections.com/Coin/560823/1936-Cleveland-CentennialGreat-Lakes-Exposition-Half-Dollar-Uncertified-With-Original-Card-of-Issue-Toned

Weiss

Maybe just a vintage original holder thread?

1901 Pan American Expo by MacNeil:

1930 Iceland 10 Kronur commemorating 1,000 years of the Icelandic parliament (now NGC MS63):

boyernumismatics

@Td337 said:
Not mine, but this Cleveland in original holder on Great Collections is super cool...

https://www.greatcollections.com/Coin/560823/1936-Cleveland-CentennialGreat-Lakes-Exposition-Half-Dollar-Uncertified-With-Original-Card-of-Issue-Toned

I'm going to have to keep a close eye on that one!!!

Beefer518

Fairly common -

Timbuk3

Nice gentlemen, thanks for sharing !!!

kiyote

Very cool! It’s hard to believe people used to toss original commemorative coin packaging...

sends first strike commemorative coins to PCGS, throws away the OGP when it comes back

kiyote

I wonder, though, did every Bridgeport half come in a box like that?

BG

A good majority of coin sales the packaging brings more money than the coin does.

This one is Raw and came with the box.

BG

@kiyote said:
I wonder, though, did every Bridgeport half come in a box like that?

“. . .We have received the following information relative to the coin from W. B. Aurandt, managing director of Bridgeport Centennial, Inc.:

‘In addition to the world-wide fame of P. T. Barnum as a showman, we look upon him with a great deal of respect as a fine citizen and philanthropist of our city. He served as our Mayor in the year 1875. In 1851 he purchased a tract of land in East Bridgeport, laid out streets and lined them with trees. He also reserved a grove of eight acres, which is now known as Washington Park. This was the beginning of an industrial development in our city which has since grown to great proportions. We owe a great debt of gratitude to Mr. Barnum who was among the first to take action toward acquiring thirty acres of land which he gave to the city. This land comprised our original Seaside Park, which has since been enlarged to 210 acres and has one of the finest locations in New England, with a seawall 2 ½ miles long.

‘We believe it most fitting and desirable to pay tribute to Mr. Barnum by having issued a commemorative half dollar bearing a likeness of his profile. The issue is 25,000, and will not entertain an additional coinage. We are now filling applications for approximately 18,000 coins and the demand is continuing to be evident both from local and out-of-town reservations. The coin is delivered insured, postpaid, packed in a beautiful, blue, gold-imprinted container at a cost of $2.00 each, the proceeds being allocated to help defray our Centennial celebration expenses."  **3**

3 The Numismatist, Bridgeport’s Half Dollar , November 1936, p. 911.

ECHOES

Very nice, thanks for sharing

CommemDude

This is one of my areas of interest

BillJones

The Delaware commemorative half dollar.

Delaware multicoin folder.

The Delaware program booket for the celebration that was held in connection with the issue of the half dollar.

And here is the artist's depiction of the half dollar, which appeared in the program, that did not quite match the design of the finished coin.

BillJones

@boyernumismatics said:

@BillJones said:
I have commemative coins and the packages in which some of them came but they are not with their orignal packages. If you need to have that, this will be a short thread.

I would have thought more people would have some insight/ interest than just me, lol! I was just trying to make a friendly and helpful thread, that's all. Show off what you've got, since the original packaging is rare!

Sorry .. I thought that you required that the original coin had to be included with the original packaging. That can be done, but it's tough, and usually the asking prices are way more than the regular price for the coin. I have always passed on those deals.

BillJones

I put together this Pan-Pac set about a year ago. The photo of all parts of the box is from the Stacks' catalog. The box is more interesting to me than the copper frame because of the paper insert that goes into the specifics about each coin.

Box and coins.

CommemDude

@kiyote said:
I wonder, though, did every Bridgeport half come in a box like that?

ricko

The only original coin/box combination I have is a British Crown....I will see if I can talk my wife into a phone picture.... Cheers, RickO

CommemDude

boyernumismatics

@CommemDude said:
@kiyote said:
I wonder, though, did every Bridgeport half come in a box like that?

My box is only for one coin. Were the boxes specially made for each order, or could you buy 1, 3, 5, etc amount of coins and have the box to match?

boyernumismatics

@CommemDude said:
This is one of my areas of interest

What an absolutely IMPRESSIVE collection you have there. I hope I can one day have a rival set like that. I know there's a LOT of money in that collage!

DaveWcoins

Cool thread!

basetsb

Very cool pieces with boxes!

SFDSA

I too have one of these commemorative coins but it is a bay bridge 1936-S.
I quest my question is should I send it in to be graded or leave it in its sealed original plastic cover?

asheland

@SFDSA

Smudge

Great stuff here.

johnny9434

thats is all good stuff to see here today

Mitchell

I used to have a massive collection of commemorative memorabilia. I sold the collection in the early 2000s but kept a few pieces for giggles.

Here are a few:

The Bay Bridge presentation pieces were coins from the first 200 strikes. In the mid 1980s, a mini-hoard of 20 was discovered by Les and Sue Fox (of "Silver Dollar Fortune Telling"). They mounted the pieces in custom Capital Plastics holders and sold them on the open market. The hoard sold out almost instantly.

The first strike pieces were not handled any differently than normal business strike Bay Bridges and thus have no distinguishing features other than the documentation. Many of the original coins were removed from the Capital Plastics holder and slabbed (usually at MS66-67 when that meant something) and replaced with a MS65 coin. Because I know the provenance of #73, I am certain this coin is an original early strike piece.

These after-market pieces appeared sometime in the late 1980s. Each piece featured the sculpture Jacques Schnier holding his plaster model and signature. The coins are nothing special.

Similar pieces can be found for the Elgin and Iowa commemorative halves. Foolishly, I sold those holders years ago.

Mitchell

My commemorative memorabilia collection also had a nice series of order forms, many of them scarcer than the holders.
I didn't hold many of the forms (I was tempted to hold all of them) but I did keep a few. Although the coin is common and so is the holder, a Norfolk order form is rare.

I also stumbled on a big collection of order confirmation post cards. Here is a reply card that confirmed an order for the Norfolk half.

Connecticoin

@CommemDude said:
@kiyote said:
I wonder, though, did every Bridgeport half come in a box like that?

Nice! Never seen a 3 coin box - its in excellent shape as well! Looks like the coins are in good shape as well - the one coin box tended not to be kind to the coin - especially the reverse.

MWallace

Great thread!!! Thanks to all for sharing.

Hydrant

I have the 1982-D Washington commemorative in the original box. But, then again, you most likely have one too. So I won't bother posting a photo of it. If you want to know what it looks like go look at yours. It's easier for me that way.

conorlarsen

Here is the after market Iowa

kaz

Some very interesting material in this thread!

silvereaglefan74

I know I'm late but this is the coolest commemorative showing I've ever seen! I'm very impressed!