See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration! or register with email

Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!

½ Dollar Pennacook tribes

Issuer Jamul Indian Village (Native American tribes)
Year 2023
Type Log in to see details
Value Log in to see details
Currency Log in to see details
Composition Log in to see details
Weight Log in to see details
Diameter Log in to see details
Thickness 2.1 mm
Shape Log in to see details
Technique Log in to see details
Orientation Log in to see details
Engraver(s) Log in to see details
In circulation to Log in to see details
Reference(s) Log in to see details
Obverse description Log in to see details
Obverse script Latin
Obverse lettering Log in to see details
Reverse description Log in to see details
Reverse script Log in to see details
Reverse lettering PENNACOOK TRIBES 2023
✶ ✶
HALF DOLLAR
Edge Log in to see details
Mint Log in to see details
Mintage Log in to see details
Additional information

Jamul Indian Village is a federally recognized Kumeyaay community located near San Diego — not historically affiliated with the Pennacook, an Algonquian-speaking confederacy centered in what is now southern New Hampshire and northeastern Massachusetts. That geographical and cultural disconnect is unexplained by the issuing authority's public record, and the coin's existence reflects the broader phenomenon of tribal nations issuing numismatic pieces depicting peoples and histories outside their own, a practice that expanded sharply after IGRA-era economic development in the 1990s opened new revenue streams.

YOU MAY ALSO LIKE