Columbian half dollar. Cant quite decifer the Roman numeral date. COPY For $0.50 I figured I'd look into who made it. Cant find another one looking through Google pictures. Hmmm. Weighs in at 15.6 grams, slightly smaller in dia then a real one and thicker. Doesn't stick to a magnet. Has a clad looking receded edge.
"Cant quite decifer the Roman numeral date." That is simple: There isn't a Roman numeral date. the 14 + 92 = 1492.
What “ I too was trying to figure out where there was a Roman numeral date on there, because I sure didn’t see any Roman numerals!
This from a set of copy pieces that were sold, I think in the 1990s. The company made copies of every "old commemorative half dollar." The mintages were one tenth of the original mintage, if memory serves. Therefore there were only 1,000 copies of the Hawaiian commemorative which kept it as the "key" to the set. I saw some of these back there, but I don't think that they were good sellers from the company that made them. I think that they were made of silver. If so, you did okay in terms of the scrap price.
Interesting, I could find anything with googly. The side looks like a clad half dollar with the copper layer, SO I assumed clad. Could be 40%? I'll check it with a strong magnet and see if I can get a response. For the fifty cents it cost, it's worth that as a novelty.
To bad Columbus died before finding out he was not the first to discover America, not even second, or third. Poor fella. Fact, no one knows exactly what Columbus looked like, look it up!
That is a very good copy. If it wasn't marked COPY and just had the 1892 or93 date at the bottom it would probably fool a lot of people.
