½ Dollar (Sesquicentennial of American Independence)

The Coin That Put a Living President on America's Money

In 1926, the U.S. Mint did something it had never done before and would not do again for eighty years: it put a living president on a coin. The Sesquicentennial half dollar honored America's 150th birthday with the faces of George Washington and the sitting president, Calvin Coolidge. Almost nobody bought it.