Tag: 1948

1946-1951 Booker T. Washington Half Dollar

Posted in Commemorative Coins, Silver Commemoratives

Some of the problems that had occurred for earlier commemorative issues, reemerged with the Booker T. Washington Half Dollar (Buy on eBay). Authorized in 1946, the coins would be struck in five separate years across three different mint facilities, in an attempt to maximize sales. Eventually, more than one million coins were distributed. The artist […]