

United States
½ Dollar (First Flight Centennial)
United States · Copper
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The 2003 First Flight Centennial Half Dollar
In December 1903, two bicycle mechanics from Ohio flew 120 feet over a North Carolina sand dune and changed the world. A hundred years later, the U.S. Mint marked the moment with a half dollar — and almost nobody bought it.
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