

½ Dollar (50th Anniversary of Kennedy Half Dollar: Gold Issue)
United States · Gold
The coin
The first half dollar America ever struck in gold
In 2014 the U.S. Mint did something it had never done in two centuries of coining: it struck a half dollar in gold. The face value still read fifty cents. The metal inside was worth more than a thousand dollars. Collectors lined up around the block for it.
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