Post a classic commemorative half dollar beginning with my new Oregon Trail & ...

I'll see your Connecticut & raise you a Columbus.

 

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This might be one of the coins I have held the longest in my collection (pushing 44 years). I bought this when I was around 11 years old -- and I think I paid around $25 for it (tho I dont recall the exact price). I just got it graded last year and it came back MS65.

 

That Connecticut is gorgeous........



I'll see that Columbian






And post ya a Delaware.....

 

I haven't got an example to see your Delaware. I'll have to go all-in with my tripple struck Hawaii on a struck 1793 large cent.

Lacking that, I'll put in a dollar.

 

Ya trumped me on that one...... Still need one o' those......

 

As with all commemoratives, fakes exist. My Lafayette dollar is in a small white ANACS holder.

 

This is my Stone Mountain Half Dollar. The obverse depicts General Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson and General Robert E. Lee.

Post em if you got em.

 

Here are a couple I bought with some 40% halves I found roll hunting.

 

And one more I bought awhile back.

 

Some really PQ coins in this thread !

 

Please post em if you got em.

Here is a Boone from my collection. (sorry that the photo is better of the green sticker than the coin ).

 

One can only help but wonder if the War between the States might have turned out differently had Jackson not been shot by one of his pickets at Chancellorsville. His deceptive movements in the Valley Campaign kept the Union armies clueless at times and forced Lincoln to commit more troops in that arena and away from the assault on Richmond (peninsular campaign). I very much believe that the outcome at Gettysburg would have been different had Jackson been at Lees side (as is depicted in this coin).........

 

Trying to amass a complete collection of 'classic commem's' is way over the top for me. The Oregon Trail and Texas issues, along with Arkansas and Boone issues will drive you nuts trying to get every one. I usually collect only one example of each but in the case of the Boone Bicentennial there are two varieties......1934 & 1935 with the words 'Pioneer Year' printed on the reverse, and 1935 onward, the original issue date (1934) added to the field above 'Pioneer Year'.......

 

Anyone have a Hawaii half dollar to post here?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1928-Hawaii...47?pt=Coins_US_Individual&hash=item53e777aca7

The Hawaii half dollar is on my wish list (However, this particular example on Ebay doesn't get my interest).

 

It's on mine too......that e-bay one is a bit over the top for the grade. I've only seen one at a show, and it went for a lot less in '63 condition.

 

Someone asked for the other Pan-Pacs. Kinda regret selling this one, might likely never get another. Wasn't PQ, but a tough issue nonetheless.

 

Hippocampus

This is an appropriate design for use on a Panama canal coin. The obverse depicts Columbia with a caduceus in her left hand, sitting on a hippocampus. The Greek Mythical Hippocampus is a sea horse with two forefeet, and a body ending in the tail of a dolphin or fish.

 

Look what I found in a previous CT thread. :b8nce:

http://www.cointalk.com/t97033/