½ Dollar (Basketball Hall of Fame) obverse½ Dollar (Basketball Hall of Fame) reverse
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½ Dollar (Basketball Hall of Fame)

United States · Copper

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The Basketball Hall of Fame Half Dollar: a coin shaped like the backboard

Hold this half dollar and it doesn't sit flat in your palm. One face caves inward like a satellite dish; the other domes out like the ball itself. The U.S. Mint built it that way on purpose — and on some of them, it did something it had never done in 228 years: it added color.

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