

United States
½ Dollar (Old Spanish Trail)
United States · Silver
The coin
The story
Old Spanish Trail Half Dollar
In 1935 a single coin dealer in El Paso talked Congress into minting a half dollar for an anniversary that wasn't real, honoring a journey the design got wrong — and put a cow's head on it as a pun. Then he kept the coins for himself. It is one of the rarest and most coveted of all the classic U.S. commemoratives.
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