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Favorite Commemorative Half? (Share Your Pics!)

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 Posted 03/20/2013  9:38 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add jgettings00 to your friends list
Seems the ones I favor are also favorites of everybody else.
And I am from California so perhaps that commemorative is high on my list for the same reason as your Lexington/Concord
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 Posted 03/20/2013  11:17 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Not Mint to Be to your friends list
Albany---really like the Beaver
Missouri
Gettysburg
Connecticut
Pan Pac Gold $21/2
Oregon

And of course I like mine worn :)

For Moderns I like the Gold Bald Eagle $5
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 Posted 03/20/2013  11:38 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add jgettings00 to your friends list
That pan pac quarter eagle obverse might just be the coolest design I have ever seen on a U.S. coin. It's really right up my alley.
The pan pac half was really nice too.
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 Posted 03/21/2013  12:11 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add sel_69l to your friends list
The commemorative half dollars dollars 1892 through 1954 still have most of the neo classical design chatacteristics in them, that made the American coinage generally, so distinceive from the rest of the World's coinage systems.

How many people around the World do NOT like the design on a Liberty Walking half dollar?
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 Posted 03/21/2013  12:48 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add basebal21 to your friends list
I cant pick a single favorite for either the modern or the classic series. For the modern the baseball, WWII and Civil War are probably my favorites. For the classic Antietam, Lexington and Stone Mountain would be my favorites
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 Posted 03/21/2013  09:03 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Doug58s to your friends list
I think the older ones are also tough to pick a favorite out of, but mine would be Stone Mountain as well. That would be followed by the Pilgrim. Moderns...maybe 1s Flight.
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 Posted 03/21/2013  10:21 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add muddler to your friends list
Tough to single out just one, here are a few I like.

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 Posted 03/21/2013  11:54 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add jbuck to your friends list
For the purpose of this thread, the 1982 Washington Half Dollars are my favourite. They were my first pair of commemorative coins (I have both proof and uncirculated).

However, the 1990 Eisenhower Centennial Dollar is my overall favourite commemorative issue. I only have the proof, which is in a 1990 Prestige Proof Set. I am still considering acquiring an uncirculated one for my 7070.

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 Posted 03/21/2013  1:24 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add barryg to your friends list
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Aside from the subject matter, I really love how 3D the ship looks on the reverse.
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 Posted 03/21/2013  8:16 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add nickelsearcher to your friends list
to the collecting joy of USA commemorative jgettings00.

I'm a dedicated fan of what we know as the classic silver commemorative series .. 144 coins minted between 1893 and 1954.

This series IMHO contains some of the best coinage art of all USA issues ... and is filled with historical connections, greed and distribution intrigue.

Anyways ... a few of my favorites from the series ...

1926 Oregon Trail Half .... PCGS VG08

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1936 Gettysburg Half ... PCGS VG10

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On the MS side .... stunningly preserved example of a tremendous historical coin ...

1937 Antietam Half ... PCGS MS67/CAC.

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Tremendous examples IMHO of USA coinage art ...

David
Take a look at my other hobby ... http://www.jk-dk.art
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 Posted 03/21/2013  9:26 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Billibridge to your friends list


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 Posted 03/22/2013  12:54 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add jgettings00 to your friends list
I would have to agree, most of the designs are superb.
Too bad they're so dang expensive
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 Posted 03/25/2013  7:48 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add commems to your friends list
Among the half-dollars of the classic series, my #1 is the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition followed by the Oregon Trail Memorial and 1937 Roanoke Memorial (I live in NC!).


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Collecting history one coin or medal at a time! (c) commems. All rights reserved.
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 Posted 03/25/2013  11:12 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add CoinsKelly to your friends list
These are beauties! My two favorites are:

1) Oregon
2) All designs with a ship on water

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 Posted 03/26/2013  5:11 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add cheezyfryes to your friends list
I really like the Oregon Trail and Pilgrim halves. Of course, I don't own either... yet
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