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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;brg5658, post: 1270490, member: 29751&quot;]To stick with the Half Dollar theme, I will post something lesser known.&nbsp; It is a half-dollar &quot;commemorative&quot; medal privately issued in 1961.&nbsp; When the US Mint stopped making commemoratives in 1954, Robert McNamara stepped in and begun issuing medals (namely those known today as the Heraldic Art Medals) of the same size and weight of the U.S. Half Dollar, but in 92.5% silver (Sterling) instead of the 90% silver of U.S. Mint releases.&nbsp; Eventually, the weight was slightly increased because the U.S. Treasury was alerted to this effort and was worried that the medals not be able to be passed as half dollars in machines.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>This medal has special meaning to me as Kansas is the state where I was born and spent the first 24 years of my life. My great grandfather originally settled in Kansas at the age of 26 in 1878, and my parents still live in the house he built in 1883.&nbsp; I purchased this medal as an addition to my horse-themed collection of medals, tokens, and coins from around the world.&nbsp; There are a few other designs from this series included in my horses themed set, and this is a great addition and very high grade (MS68) example.&nbsp; The strike is superb, and the semi-cameo devices are quite stunning.&nbsp; Most of these medals were struck in small numbers, with mintages around 6,000 pieces or fewer.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH]138910.vB[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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