Trying To Finish The Classic Commemorative Series

I've always liked 1933-D Oregons for several reasons (generally well made, cool date no regular issue 33-D anything except cents, more) so with approximately 5,000 coins issued : MS60 $300+-, MS66 $650+- assume they all survived (liberal) forget the few lost, worn, beat pieces and forget the very few mega gems @ $1,000-sky. Say a working median of $475 per ; a guy with a little over 2 million bucks could own just about every one of them given the time and effort. I wonder what would happen to the prices of the few that would inevitably appear from time to time. Actually I don't think one could pull that off these days because of improved information and communications. And they can't have my specimen yet ... it will fit into the coffin with me ...

Okay, I paid a little more than I had budgeted for this 1939-P, but I got paranoid when the coin stopped showing up in my ebay searches. Thankfully, it was still on my ebay "Watch List" (I have no idea why it was there, but was no longer being generated as a search result). Anyway, even though I don't like overly toned coins per se, I do like the "tab toning" on this original coin.
Now I only need the 1939-D Oregon to complete the 144-coin silver Classic Commemorative set. I plan to practice more patience in my search for the final coin...

@captainrich: Wonderful coin! Congrats on the purchase and your overall set building!

Your beautiful coin looks like it may have spent some time in one of these types of holders:



One question: Do you have any idea why nearly half of the holographic label on the reverse side of the NGC holder was scratched off?

Can't argue with that. I wonder how many other US coins are similarly (mis) described?

I would! And so would the US Mint! And so would the hobby at the time of the coin's original release.

While I agree that today's collectors view the Native American side of the coin as the obverse, it is the side with the Conestoga wagon that is officially the obverse. Here's a link to the US Mint page for the coin US Mint - Oregon Trail Memorial Half Dollar.

Contemporary publications, such as the ANA's The Numismatist, published release info on the coin from the Oregon Trail Memorial Association which described the obverse as the wagon side.

While James Earle Fraser and Laura Gardin Fraser (the artists who created the designs for the coin: James Earle - Conestoga wagon, Laura - Native American) might have considered the wagon side to be the reverse, their view never became the official stance on the coin. Their opinion, however, helped spur much of today's thinking on the coin's sides.

Today's hobby "agreement" on which side is which is a case of modern opinion vs. official record.

This 1939-D Oregon Trails represents the last coin needed to complete the 144-coin Classic Silver Commemorative series, which I started about 17 years ago.
Although all the coins are straight graded uncirculated by NGC, with no details grading, the set still only ranks 42 in the NGC Registry. But that's because there are a lot of MS-62 coins, which I hope to upgrade in the future.
If you want to view the registry set, it's called "White Uncirculated Halves," and it's located at:

https://www.NGCcoin.com/registry/co...e-sets/5621/

This is a simply amazing achievement. Congratulations!