Coin: silver 50 cent

Museum number:
2-57124
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21020057124
Accession number:
Acc.2970
Description:
Diamond Jubilee Commemorative Half Dollar silver/copper coin, August 1925, minted in San Francisco. Created to celebrate California's 75th year as a state. Obverse: Forty-niner gold panning with legends: LIBERTY / IN GOD / WE TRUST / CALIFORNIA DIAMOND / JUBILEE / 1925 Reverse: Grizzly Bear (walking left) with legends: E PLURIBUS UNUM / UNITED STATES OF AMERICA / HALF DOLLAR
Donor:
Newton Henry Neustadter Jr. and Roberta Elliot Neustadter
Collection place:
San Francisco Mint, San Francisco, San Francisco County
Production place:
San Francisco Mint, San Francisco, San Francisco County
Culture or time period:
United States Historic
Maker or artist:
Jo Mora
Collector:
Newton Henry Neustadter Jr.
Materials:
Silver (metal)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Coins (money) and Half dollars
Function:
7.5 Issued Currency and Associated Containers
Production date:
1925
Accession date:
1973
Department:
Nonnative California (archaeology and ethnology)
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Coin: silver 50 cent, accession number 2-57124, described as Diamond Jubilee Commemorative Half Dollar silver/copper coin, August 1925, minted in San Francisco. Created to celebrate California's 75th year as a state. Obverse: Forty-niner gold panning with legends: LIBERTY / IN GOD / WE TRUST / CALIFORNIA DIAMOND / JUBILEE / 1925 Reverse: Grizzly Bear (walking left) with legends: E PLURIBUS UNUM / UNITED STATES OF AMERICA / HALF DOLLAR

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