

United States
½ Dollar (50th Anniversary of World War II)
United States · Copper
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The World War II 50th Anniversary Half Dollar
It is dated 1991-1995, but it was struck in a single year — 1993. Those years on the coin aren't when it was made; they mark the half-century since America's war, 1941 to 1945. Every one sold carried a small surcharge, and that money went toward a memorial that did not yet exist.
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