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<p>[QUOTE="Greg Sebring, post: 335397, member: 12186"]The standing Liberty Half dollars were awards my mother was given back in the early 1940s. You can see my mothers maiden name was stamped in the outside rim along with the year. She attended a very small school (8 in her high school graduating class) in Macon, Michigan. Macon was the summer home of Henry Ford and his wife Clara. Ford owned thousands of acres of farm land in Macon Township, 60 miles SW of Detroit. Ford started the school for the children of area farmers that worked his land. My mother's High School diploma is signed by both Henry and Clara Ford. I only went into this much detail so you would know how they came to be.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Halves all show some wear and are not the same year as the award. There is one 1936, two 1938s, and one 1944. I have no plans on trying to remove the coins from the rims as the sentimental value to me exceeds whatever value they might have. The one photo shows the cases the coin awards came in. The one is a mini McGuffey Reader. I just submitted them as a curiosity and coin related.</p><p><br /></p><p>Greg[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Greg Sebring, post: 335397, member: 12186"]The standing Liberty Half dollars were awards my mother was given back in the early 1940s. You can see my mothers maiden name was stamped in the outside rim along with the year. She attended a very small school (8 in her high school graduating class) in Macon, Michigan. Macon was the summer home of Henry Ford and his wife Clara. Ford owned thousands of acres of farm land in Macon Township, 60 miles SW of Detroit. Ford started the school for the children of area farmers that worked his land. My mother's High School diploma is signed by both Henry and Clara Ford. I only went into this much detail so you would know how they came to be. The Halves all show some wear and are not the same year as the award. There is one 1936, two 1938s, and one 1944. I have no plans on trying to remove the coins from the rims as the sentimental value to me exceeds whatever value they might have. The one photo shows the cases the coin awards came in. The one is a mini McGuffey Reader. I just submitted them as a curiosity and coin related. Greg[/QUOTE]
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