United States
½ Dollar (Lynchburg, Virginia Sesquicentennial)
United States · Silver
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The story
The 1936 Lynchburg Half Dollar
In 1936, Senator Carter Glass of Virginia called the Philadelphia Mint to ask whether any law could keep a living person off a U.S. coin. He was asking about himself. The answer was no — and so his portrait went onto the Lynchburg half dollar anyway, against his wishes.
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