Found In A Machine Wrap Roll - 1936 Long Island Tercentenary

This came out of a box of halves last week. The lowest mintage coin Ive ever found in almost 2 years of searching :-)





here is a snippet and a link:

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/01/n...-dollar.html

"Long Island has its own commemorative coin; has had it for a long time. The Long Island Tercentenary Half Dollar was created as legal coinage by an act of Congress in 1936 to help defray the cost of the Island's commemoration of the arrival of its first white settlers 300 years before. Those Dutch colonists sailed into Jamaica Bay in 1636, bought a 118-mile strip of land from 13 Algonquin tribes and called it Lange Eylandt.

The event is celebrated on the Long Island half dollar, with the front depicting a male Dutch settler and an Algonquin tribesman. The reverse shows a Dutch sailing ship of that era."

and now Ive learned something too :-)