United States
½ Dollar (York County, Maine Tercentenary)
United States · Silver
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The York County, Maine Tercentenary Half Dollar
In 1936, Congress approved a United States half dollar to mark the 300th birthday of a single Maine county. Most Americans had never heard of York County. It got a coin anyway — and that tells you almost everything about the strangest year in U.S. commemorative coinage.
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