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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;WingedLiberty, post: 1162901, member: 26030&quot;]Just bought this last night ... </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH]120771.vB[/ATTACH]</p><p>Design Backgound:</p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: seagreen">The 1915-S Panama-Pacific half dollar was designed by Barber (obverse) and Morgan (reverse).&nbsp; The exposition, held in 1915 in San Francisco, celebrated the opening of the Panama Canal and Pacific Ocean commerce.&nbsp; These coins sold for $1 each at the exposition.&nbsp; The obverse shows a represenation of the Goddess Columbia scattering flowers with a naked cherub holding a cornacopia representing the abundant resources of the American West -- behind them the Golden Gate and settng Sun.&nbsp; The Sun with rays was a popular design element of the day having been used on the St. Gaudens $20 gold piece, and the following year adopted on the Walking Liberty Half desgin.&nbsp;&nbsp; This was the first Commemorative coin to carry the &quot;In God We Trust&quot; motto.&nbsp; The remaining mintage is 27,134 (after 33,000 were melted down).</span></p><p><span style="color: seagreen"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: seagreen"></span>Grading Info:</p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: seagreen"> The finish of these coins did not have the typical deep mint luster associated with earlier silver issues; but instead was satinlike with a microscopic grainy finish.&nbsp; On the reverse, the eagles breast feathers were indistinct on all coins -- a characteristic that often gives mint state coins the appearance of having light wear.&nbsp; These factors make this coin in particular difficult to grade.&nbsp; Most specimins of this coin fall into the range from AU50 to MS63.</span>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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