An older brother holding the hand of his younger brother in 1917. They walk toward Father Flanagan’s Boys Home and the 1940s Pylon representing what would become Boys Town.
Obverse script
Latin
Obverse lettering
BOYS TOWN
1917 2017
IN GOD WE TRUST
LIBERTY
Saving Children
Reverse description
Present-day Boys Town neighborhood of homes where children are schooled and nurtured by caring families. Out of these homes come young adults who graduate from high school and the Boys Town program.
Reverse script
Latin
Reverse lettering
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
E PLURIBUS UNUM
Healing Families
HALF DOLLAR
Edge
Reeded
Mint
D United States Mint of Denver,United States (1906-date) S United States Mint of San Francisco, United States (1854-date)