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Iowa - Congress authorized almost no commemoratives between 1939 and 1945. The Iowa half dollar, alongside the Booker T. Washington issue, were the only two authorized in 1946 as the program slowly s… (View Post)

I can't believe the DETAIL in the two TINY portrait cameos of Sam Houston and Stephen Austin. Not only that, they even wrote each of their names there!!!!!! We always talk about how coins are Ar… (View Post)

Texas - Sculptor Pompeo Coppini packed an extraordinary amount of detail onto a standard half-dollar. The reverse is so heavily layered that some collectors famously returned the coin to the Mint com… (View Post)

Spanish Trail - This coin commemorates the 400th anniversary of the cross-country expedition of the explorer Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca. The coin's obverse features the head of a cow (his surnam… (View Post)

Arkansas - Although a centennial typically calls for a one-year coin, Congress authorized the Arkansas half dollar to be struck annually for a massive five years - from 1935 through 1939 across multi… (View Post)