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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;green18, post: 2196567, member: 10103&quot;]All of the 1892 (.50) coins were distributed.&nbsp; After the Columbian Exposition closed shop (1894) there remained 3.6 million unsold (1893) halves and the treasury department offered them to the public at face value.......not many were exchanged and some 2,501,700 were melted with the excess remaining being dumped into circulation.</p><p><br /></p><p>As to the Isabella.......there were only 40,023 business strikes produced and of that number, 15,809 returned to the mint (and the melting pot) after the exposition.&nbsp; Short answer?&nbsp; The Isabella is simply rarer than the halve.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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