Classic Commem Half Dollars 1936 Only, Please
Mar 04, 2022
4 minutes
BY MARK BENVENUTO
(Images courtesy United States Mint.)
Many collectors have no memory of the heyday and heady feel that there once was for collecting our classic commemoratives, which means a long string of half dollars for the most part. That’s probably not all that bad a thing, actually. Back in the 1980s, right when the idea of third-party grading was taking hold, there was a lot of buzz about the series of classic commems that spanned from 1892 to 1954. There was interest in just how common or scarce each issue was, and how much some of these would rise in value if only we could get
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