Episode 1553
York County, Maine, Tercentenary half dollar
Thu, 2021-Aug-05 00:19 UTC
Length - 2:23
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The featured article for Thursday, 5 August 2021 is York County, Maine, Tercentenary half dollar.
The York County, Maine, Tercentenary half dollar is a 50-cent commemorative coin minted in 1936 to commemorate the tercentenary (300th anniversary) of the founding of York County. The obverse shows Brown's Garrison, the fort around which York County was formed, while the reverse depicts the county's arms.
A commemorative coin craze in 1936 saw some coins authorized by the United States Congress that were of mainly local significance; the York County issue was one of these. Legislation permitting the half dollar passed Congress without opposition in the first half of 1936. Maine artist Walter H. Rich designed the issue; his work has garnered mixed praise and dislike from numismatic authors.
The committee in charge of selling the coins to the public asked that the maximum issue of 30,000 coins be struck, but for uncertain reasons the Philadelphia Mint struck only 25,000 for public sale. Less than 19,000 sold by 1937, more than half to Mainers; the rest were sold in the 1950s. As of 2020, the York County half dollar catalogs for around $200, depending on condition.
This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 00:19 UTC on Thursday, 5 August 2021.
For the full current version of the article, see York County, Maine, Tercentenary half dollar on Wikipedia.
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