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Replica - ½ Dollar Boone Bicentennial
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| Thickness | 2.45 mm |
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| Obverse description | Central design features a frontiersman, identified as Daniel Boone, standing in confrontation with a Native American warrior; Boone holds a map of Kentucky and a musket while the warrior holds a tomahawk. A blockhouse stockade occupies the middle ground, with a stylized sun with radiating rays above the horizon in the background. The legend DANIEL BOONE BICENTENNIAL arcs across the upper field, with the motto IN GOD WE TRUST and E PLURIBUS UNUM flanking the central figures. The inscriptions PIONEER YEAR and the date 1935 appear in the lower portion of the field. |
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The Daniel Boone Bicentennial half dollar was issued from 1934 through 1938, ostensibly commemorating the 200th anniversary of Boone's birth — though the series quickly became a vehicle for promoter C. Frank Shnitt to extract maximum profit through an aggressive scheme of mint mark variants and sub-issues that drew sharp criticism from collectors and Congress alike. The proliferation of P, D, and S mint mark combinations, sold only in sets at inflated prices, helped accelerate the end of the entire commemorative half dollar program by 1954.
This example is a silver-plated replica. KM#165 refers to the 1934 issue, the first in the series.