½ Dollar (Atlanta Olympics - Women's Soccer)

The 1996 Olympic Soccer Half Dollar: a coin for a sport that had no Olympic past

In 1996, the U.S. Mint put two women playing soccer on a half dollar. That was a quiet first. Women's soccer had never been an Olympic sport before the Atlanta Games — and the coin went into the world the same summer the U.S. team won the very first gold medal in it.