1946-S Silver Booker T Washington Commemorative Half Dollar OGP Toned BU 1 COIN
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1946-S Silver Booker T Washington Commemorative Half Dollar OGP Toned BU 1 COIN
Here we have something you don't see every day - a 1946-S Booker T Washington Commemorative Half Dollar in the original Kraft Envelope it was sold in back in 1947.
I was fortunate enough to have come into 16 of these (several from each of the 3 mints). Your bid is for ONE 1946 San Francisco issue - the EXACT coin shown in the first few photos. Photos 5 through 12 are of the entire hoard to demonstrate where the one that is for sale came from.
These coins came from a Public Auction Sale in New Hampshire earlier this month. The auction was a conjunction of a Lifetime of 5+ decades of collecting from a passionate collector and a couple dozen abandoned safe deposit boxes a local bank contracted the auction house to liquidate
These Booker T Washington Commemorative Half Dollars were originally sold through Bebee Stamp and Coin, an authorized Dealer who bought a batch of these direct fromn the US Mint in 1946 for 25c each over the origianl US Mint issued cost of $1 per coin for the Philadelphia and San Francisco coins (The mint charged $1.50 each for the Denver issues).
The coins were offered by the Booker T. Washington Birthplace Memorial Commission, and were priced at $1 each for the Philadelphia and San Francisco issues, while the lower mintage Denver issue sold for $1.50 each. During this first year, 200,000 sets were issued, with an additional 800,000 coins intended for sale as singles minted at Philadelphia. Despite the large number sold, many of the coins were either melted or released into circulation. In the following years, instead of being offered directly by the Booker T. Washington Birthplace Memorial Commission, the coins would be offered by coin firms which worked as authorized agents of the commission. By then, both sales and mintage figures had considerably declined, and would continue to decline for the rest of the program. One exception to this trend is the 1950 San Francisco and 1951 Philadelphia issues, which the commission sold as a part of a promotion which also involved schools and hospitals. However, a considerable portion of the mintage of these coins would still be returned to the mint in the following years for melting
Designed by Isaac Scott Hathaway and minted in silver between 1946 and 1951. The obverse depicts Booker T. Washington. The reverse shows the cabin in which Washington was born, now the Booker T. Washington National Monument, and the Hall of Fame for Great Americans, in which Washington is honored. The description on the reverse reads "From slave cabin to Hall of Fame."
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