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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 3735468, member: 10461&quot;]It&#039;s not a regular issue 1946 half dollar.&nbsp; Those were of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walking_Liberty_half_dollar" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walking_Liberty_half_dollar" rel="nofollow">Walking Liberty</a> type.</p><p><br /></p><p>What you have there is a special issue- a <i>commemorative</i> half dollar, honoring, as you noticed, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booker_T._Washington_Memorial_half_dollar" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booker_T._Washington_Memorial_half_dollar" rel="nofollow">Booker T. Washington</a>.&nbsp; Yours is a 1946, from the first year they issued them.&nbsp; It lacks any &quot;D&quot; (Denver) or &quot;S&quot; (San Francisco) mintmark beneath the log cabin, so it&#039;s from Philadelphia (no mint mark).</p><p><br /></p><p>Here are the <a href="http://www.numismedia.com/rarecoinprices/cgi/coinprice.cgi?script=slvcom&amp;searchtype=any&amp;searchtext=fmv&amp;search=any&amp;nmcode=18521200&amp;guide=prices&amp;guide2=pricesms&amp;proof=&amp;plus=" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.numismedia.com/rarecoinprices/cgi/coinprice.cgi?script=slvcom&amp;searchtype=any&amp;searchtext=fmv&amp;search=any&amp;nmcode=18521200&amp;guide=prices&amp;guide2=pricesms&amp;proof=&amp;plus=" rel="nofollow">Numismedia trend prices</a> for the 1946 (P) Booker T. Washington half dollar.</p><p><br /></p><p>I would grade your coin on the strong end of the Extremely Fine spectrum, and call it XF45.&nbsp; Grading opinions may vary- it&#039;s somewhere in the XF40 to AU50 range, I&#039;d say, personally.</p><p><br /></p><p>It lists for $13 in XF40 on Numismedia.&nbsp; In strictly <i>retail</i> terms, I&#039;d call it a $13-14 coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>These are fairly common as commemoratives go.&nbsp; Many were released into circulation, and yours was obviously one of those.&nbsp; But commemorative coins do tend to have much smaller mintages than regular issue coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>I agree with [USER=75866]@Santinidollar[/USER].&nbsp; While this is not a supremely valuable coin, it is a worthy family keepsake.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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