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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;I_Love_Silver, post: 1163909, member: 30181&quot;]<b>Some information on the Columbian Half Dollar</b></p><p><br /></p><p>I own one thats beautifully preserved and only very minor bag marks. I think thry&#039;re beautiful. I&#039;m a big fan of the engravers of this coin Charles Barber &amp; George T. Morgan. Here is a link with all the info you was asking about. I believe it was Ulrich S.J. Dunbar that originally designed the coin but Barber stole/secured the account for himself. There was supposed to be 40 Million pieces struck but only 5 million were actually produced and the proofs your talking about was numbered 103 for the 1892 issue, three of which were the 400th, 1,492nd and 1,892nd coins struck. This was in recognition of the 400th anniversary of Columbus&#039; voyage, the year of the voyage and the year of the anniversary respectively.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><b><i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbian_Exposition_half_dollar" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbian_Exposition_half_dollar" rel="nofollow">HERE is the link you seek</a></i></b>.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I apologize if this thread is very old.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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