1934-1938 Daniel Boone Bicentennial Half Dollar
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1934 Boone Bicentennial Half Dollar
Commemorating: 200th anniversary of the birth of Daniel Boone
Obverse motif: Portrait of Daniel Boone
Reverse motif: Standing figures of Boone and Indian
Authorization date: May 26, 1934
Date on coins: 1934
Date when coins were actually minted: 1934
Mint used: Philadelphia
Maximum quantity authorized: 600,000 (for total of all issues 1934 and onward)
Total quantity minted (including assay coins): 10,007
Assay coins (included in above): 7
Quantity melted: None
Net number distributed (including assay coins): 10,007
Issued by: Daniel Boone Bicentennial Commission (and its division, the Pioneer National Monument Association), Phoenix Hotel, Lexington, Kentucky (C. Frank Dunn, "sole distributor")1
Standard original packaging: Paper envelope; Dennison insert-type cardboard holder with paper flap fastened over the coin; B. Max Mehl distributed (unofficially) coins in a special hard-formed box with his imprint on the top of the interior
Official sale price: $1.60
Designer of obverse and reverse: Augustus Lukeman
Interesting fact: Of the many varieties of Boone Bicentennial half dollars made from 1934 to 1938 this is the only one with true bicentennial status.
1 Officers were: Samuel M. Wilson, Lexington, Kentucky, president; Keen Johnson, Richmond, Kentucky, vice-president; Innes B. Ross, Carlisle, Kentucky, secretary-treasurer (per 1935 letterhead in the Bowers and Merena Galleries Reference Collection).
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