½ Dollar (Roanoke Island)

The Roanoke Island Half Dollar: a coin for a colony that vanished

Three hundred fifty years before this coin was minted, more than a hundred English settlers stepped onto Roanoke Island — and then, somehow, stepped out of history entirely. The 1937 Roanoke Island half dollar is America's small silver memorial to the Lost Colony, and to the baby girl, Virginia Dare, who was born into it.