Afternoon everyone ….
As most of you know, I started out as a coin collector not a stacker. I really appreciate the older coins that were used in every day commerce that are still in amazing condition. Which is the main reason I don’t really like buying or have what is called “junk silver”.
In case you don’t know what “junk silver” means. It’s constitutional coins struck for every day commerce that contain precious metals. Here in the United States all of our constitutional coins are 90% silver. With two exception of the war nickels, which were 35% silver, and the Kennedy half dollars from 1965-1970.
Today I’m going to share a commemorative United States half dollar. There are a total of fifty different commemorative half dollars in this series. They began in 1892 and continued through 1954. They all had varying mintages, which make some quite difficult and expensive to get in mint state.
This one is the 1936 Long Island commemorative half dollar. It has been graded by NGC as an MS64. It’s got tons on cartwheel luster and has great eye appeal.
The Long Island Tercentenary half dollar was a commemorative half dollar struck by the United States Bureau of the Mint in 1936. The obverse depicts a male Dutch settler and an Algonquian tribesman, and the reverse shows a Dutch sailing ship. It was designed by Howard Weinman, the son of Mercury dime designer Adolph A. Weinman.
Here are the specs on the coin:
Value
50 cents (0.50 US dollars)
Mass
12.5 g
Diameter
30.61 mm (1.20 in)
Thickness
2.15 mm (0.08 in)
Edge
Reeded
Composition
90.0% silver
10.0% copper
Silver
0.36169 troy oz
Years of minting
1936
Mintage
100,053, including 53 pieces designated for the Assay Commission; 18,227 melted
Mint marks
None, all pieces struck at Philadelphia Mint without mint mark.
Now for the coin….