½ Dollar (Delaware Tercentenary)

The Delaware Tercentenary Half Dollar

Look closely and this little half dollar can't seem to agree on what year it is. It says 1936 on one side, 1638 and 1938 on the other — and it was actually struck in 1937. Behind that muddle is a forgotten story: the Swedes and Finns who built a colony on the Delaware River, and the oldest church in America still holding services in the building where it began.