½ Dollar (Boys Town Centennial) obverse½ Dollar (Boys Town Centennial) reverse
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½ Dollar (Boys Town Centennial)

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The Boys Town Centennial Half Dollar

In 1917 a young Omaha priest borrowed $90 and took in five boys nobody else wanted. A hundred years later, the U.S. Mint struck a half dollar in his honor — and fewer than 39,000 people bought one.

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