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Columbian half dollar
United States
Value 50 cents (0.50 US dollars)
Mass 12.5 g
Diameter 30.61 mm (1.20 in)
Thickness 2.15 mm (0.08 in)
Edge Reeded
Composition
90.0% silver
10.0% copper
Silver 0.36169 troy oz
Years of minting 1892–1893
Designer Charles E. Barber, after a concept by Olin Levi Warner
The Columbian half dollar is a coin issued by the Bureau of the Mint in 1892 and 1893. The first United States commemorative coin, it was issued both to raise funds for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition and mark the quadricentennial of the first voyage to the Americas of Christopher Columbus, whose portrait it bears. The Columbian half dollar was the first American coin to depict a historical person.