Certified MS-65 “Booker T. Washington” 1946-1951 U.S. Silver Half DollarComparatively low-priced “gem” in America’s classic commemorative series –-Many of the issues in the U.S. Mint’s original 1892-1954 commemorative half dollar series cost over a thousand dollars in super-lustrous MS-65 “gem” quality. Here’s an opportunity to own the first coin to honor an African-American in certified MS-65 quality at a comparatively low price. It was introduced in 1946, when many American blacks were returning from service in World War II, including the Tuskegee pilots from the college founded by Booker T. Washington in Alabama in 1881. Isaac Scott Hathaway created the coin’s distinguished bust of Dr. Washington, based on a life mask. The reverse renders the log cabin in Virginia where he was born into slavery in 1856, together with the New York University Hall of Fame, where the bust of Washington resides. Each dazzling “gem-quality” coin comes in a transparent protective case with grade certification by the Numismatic Guaranty Corporation or Professional Coin Grading Service. |
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