½ Dollar (Breast Cancer Awareness)

The Breast Cancer Awareness Half Dollar

In 2018 the U.S. Mint struck a coin to fund the fight against breast cancer — and to do it, it had to make gold blush pink for the first time in American history. The half dollar is the program's plain, copper-and-nickel partner to that headline gold piece: a working-money tribute that put $5 from every sale toward research, designed by a science illustrator who decided the coin should be about people, not the disease.