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- Columbian_half_dollar abstract "The Columbian half dollar is a coin issued by the Bureau of the Mint in 1892 and 1893. The first United States commemorative coin, it was issued both to raise funds for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition and mark the quadricentennial of the first voyage to the Americas of Christopher Columbus, whose portrait it bears. The Columbian half dollar was the first American coin to depict a historical person.The coin stems from the desire of the Columbian Exposition's organizers to gain federal money to complete construction of the fair. Congress granted an appropriation, and allowed it to be in the form of commemorative half dollars, which legislators and organizers believed could be sold at a premium. Fair official James Ellsworth wanted the new coin to be based on a 16th-century painting he owned by Lorenzo Lotto, reputedly of Columbus, and pushed for this through the design process. When initial sketches by Mint Chief Engraver Charles E. Barber proved unsatisfactory, fair organizers turned to a design by artist Olin Levi Warner, which after modification by Barber and by his assistant, George T. Morgan, was struck by the Mint.Some 5,000,000 half dollars were struck, far beyond the actual demand, and half of them were melted. The appropriation did not cure the fair's financial woes, as fewer than 400,000 were sold at the premium price, and some 2,000,000 were released into circulation, where they remained as late as the 1950s. The pieces can be purchased in circulated condition for less than $20; coins in near-pristine state sell for about $1,000, far less than the $10,000 the makers of the Remington Typewriter paid as a publicity stunt in 1892 for the first specimen struck.".
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- Columbian_half_dollar wikiPageWikiLinkText "Columbian Exposition".
- Columbian_half_dollar wikiPageWikiLinkText "Columbian half dollar".
- Columbian_half_dollar wikiPageWikiLinkText "World's Columbian Exposition Half Dollars".
- Columbian_half_dollar wikiPageWikiLinkText "a half dollar".
- Columbian_half_dollar wikiPageWikiLinkText "first American commemorative coins".
- Columbian_half_dollar wikiPageWikiLinkText "the commemorative half dollar".
- Columbian_half_dollar composition "* 90.0% silver * 10.0% copper".
- Columbian_half_dollar country "United States".
- Columbian_half_dollar denomination "Columbian half dollar".
- Columbian_half_dollar diameter "30.61".
- Columbian_half_dollar diameterInch "1.2".