½ Dollar (First Flight Centennial) obverse½ Dollar (First Flight Centennial) reverse
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½ Dollar (First Flight Centennial)

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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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