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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 2572867, member: 10461&quot;]<font face="Georgia"><b>USA: silver commemorative half dollar, Pilgrim Tercentenary, 1920</b></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><img src="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/USA-50cPilgrim-1920-025000-coin-800x500.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><img src="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/USA-50cPilgrim-1920-025000-slab.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><b>Obverse:</b> William Bradford left, wearing tall hat and carrying a book, presumably a bible.</font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><b>Reverse: </b><i>Mayflower</i> ship sailing left over wavy seas.</font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Georgia">PCGS MS64, cert. #09022114. Ex-Michael Kittle Rare Coins, 3/15/2014.</font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Georgia">I had wanted a pretty Pilgrim half for a while, since I&#039;m a descendant of William Bradford, who&#039;s featured on the obverse. Or so I was always told. My mother still sends me copies of the <i>Mayflower Quarterly</i>, though I haven&#039;t read many of them. Family lore said my grandmother had a silver candlestick which had belonged to William Bradford, but I never saw it when her estate was divided up, so that story may or may not have been apocryphal. Who knows. My grandmother did come from a decidedly blueblooded clan. (Not that you&#039;d guess that if you met me, two generations removed.) Anyway, even if the Bradford candlestick was just a misty family legend, I&#039;ve finally had a nice piece of silver with a William Bradford connection, right?</font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><b>Miscellaneous links:</b></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><a href="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/USA-50cPilgrim-1920-025000-coin.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/USA-50cPilgrim-1920-025000-coin.jpg" rel="nofollow">Larger image</a></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><a href="http://www.pcgs.com/Cert/09022114/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.pcgs.com/Cert/09022114/" rel="nofollow">PCGS cert verification page</a></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><a href="http://www.pcgs.com/prices/priceguidedetail.aspx?ms=1&amp;pr=1&amp;sp=1&amp;c=789&amp;title=silver+commemorative" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.pcgs.com/prices/priceguidedetail.aspx?ms=1&amp;pr=1&amp;sp=1&amp;c=789&amp;title=silver+commemorative" rel="nofollow">PCGS priceguide trends</a></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><a href="http://www.numismedia.com/fmv/pricesms/slvcom/prices61.shtml" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.numismedia.com/fmv/pricesms/slvcom/prices61.shtml" rel="nofollow">Numismedia priceguide trends</a></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><a href="http://www.ngccoin.com/coin-explorer/silver-commemoratives-pscid-71/1920-pilgrim-50c-ms-coinid-19359" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.ngccoin.com/coin-explorer/silver-commemoratives-pscid-71/1920-pilgrim-50c-ms-coinid-19359" rel="nofollow">NGC Coin Explorer listing</a></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><b>Wikipedia links:</b></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Bradford_(Plymouth_Colony_governor)" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Bradford_(Plymouth_Colony_governor)" rel="nofollow">William Bradford</a> (Plymouth Colony governor)</font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayflower" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayflower" rel="nofollow">Mayflower</a> (ship)</font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrus_Edwin_Dallin" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrus_Edwin_Dallin" rel="nofollow">Cyrus Edwin Dallin</a> (designer)</font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Georgia">When posted here, this coin had just been given to a friend out of my <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/lord-marcovans-eclectic-box-of-20-collection.283541/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/lord-marcovans-eclectic-box-of-20-collection.283541/">&quot;Eclectic Box of 20&quot; collection</a>.</font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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