United States
½ Dollar (Negro Leagues Baseball)
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The coin
The story
The 2022 Negro Leagues Baseball Half Dollar
Look closely at the heads side and you'll find a team bus tucked beneath the batter. That bus isn't decoration — for Negro Leagues players it was the locker room, the diner, and the motel, because so many real ones turned them away. The whole story of this coin is in that one detail.
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