½ Dollar (Missouri Commemorative)

The 1921 Missouri Centennial Half Dollar

In 1921, Missouri turned a hundred. To mark it, the U.S. Mint struck 50,000 silver half dollars showing Daniel Boone. Then the recession hit, the crowds stayed home, and nearly 30,000 of them went back to the Mint to be melted. What survived became one of the most coveted coins in American commemorative collecting.