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- Oregon_Trail_Memorial_half_dollar abstract "The Oregon Trail Memorial half dollar was a fifty-cent piece struck intermittently by the United States Bureau of the Mint between 1926 and 1939. The coin was designed by Laura Gardin Fraser and James Earle Fraser, and commemorates those who traveled the Oregon Trail and settled the Pacific Coast of the United States in the mid-19th century. Struck over a lengthy period in small numbers per year, the many varieties produced came to be considered a ripoff by coin collectors, and led to the end, for the time, of the commemorative coin series.Ohio-born Ezra Meeker had traveled the Trail with his family in 1852 and spent the final two decades of his long life before his death in 1928 publicizing the Oregon Trail, that it should not be forgotten. In 1926, at age 95, he appeared before a Senate committee, requesting that the government issue a commemorative coin that could be sold to raise money for markers to show where the Trail had been. Congress authorized six million half dollars, and placed no restriction on when or at what mint the coins would be struck. Meeker's Oregon Trail Memorial Association (OTMA) had tens of thousands of pieces struck in 1926 and 1928, and did not sell them all. Nevertheless, most years between 1933 and 1939, it had small quantities of the half dollar coined, in some years from all three operating mints to produce mintmarked varieties, and raised prices considerably.Collectors complained that some of the issues were controlled by coin dealers, and individual collectors had to pay high prices. Public protests followed, and in 1939 Congress ended the series. Despite the complaints, the OTMA had difficulty in selling the coins, and they remained available from the OTMA's successor organization as late as 1953. Just over 260,000 of the 6,000,000 authorized coins were struck, of which about 60,000 were melted. The US commemorative coin struck over the longest period, the Oregon Trail Memorial half dollar has been widely praised for its design.".
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- Oregon_Trail_Memorial_half_dollar composition "* 90.0% silver * 10.0% copper".
- Oregon_Trail_Memorial_half_dollar country "United States".
- Oregon_Trail_Memorial_half_dollar denomination "Oregon Trail Memorial half dollar".
- Oregon_Trail_Memorial_half_dollar diameter "30.61".
- Oregon_Trail_Memorial_half_dollar diameterInch "1.2".
- Oregon_Trail_Memorial_half_dollar edge Reeding.
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- Oregon_Trail_Memorial_half_dollar mass "12.5".
- Oregon_Trail_Memorial_half_dollar mintMarks "D, S. Just to the left of the ground on which the Indian stands. Philadelphia Mint coins struck without mint mark.".
- Oregon_Trail_Memorial_half_dollar obverse "1938".
- Oregon_Trail_Memorial_half_dollar obverseDesign "Native American standing in front of a US map".
- Oregon_Trail_Memorial_half_dollar obverseDesignDate "1926".
- Oregon_Trail_Memorial_half_dollar obverseDesigner Laura_Gardin_Fraser.
- Oregon_Trail_Memorial_half_dollar obverseLabel ""Indian side"".
- Oregon_Trail_Memorial_half_dollar quote "3.15576E9".
- Oregon_Trail_Memorial_half_dollar quote "An act to authorize the coinage of 50-cent pieces in commemoration of the heroism of the fathers and mothers who traversed the Oregon Trail to the far West with great hardship, daring, and loss of life, which not only resulted in adding new states to the Union but earned a well-deserved and imperishable fame for the pioneers; to honor the twenty thousand dead that lie buried in unknown graves along two thousand miles of that great highway of history; to rescue the various important points along the old trail from oblivion; and to commemorate by suitable monuments, memorial or otherwise, the tragic events associated with that emigration—erecting them either along the trail itself or elsewhere, in localities appropriate for the purpose, including the city of Washington.".
- Oregon_Trail_Memorial_half_dollar reverse "1938".
- Oregon_Trail_Memorial_half_dollar reverseDesign "Ox-drawn covered wagon being led west toward the setting sun".
- Oregon_Trail_Memorial_half_dollar reverseDesignDate "1926".
- Oregon_Trail_Memorial_half_dollar reverseDesigner James_Earle_Fraser_(sculptor).
- Oregon_Trail_Memorial_half_dollar reverseLabel ""Wagon side"".
- Oregon_Trail_Memorial_half_dollar salign "right".
- Oregon_Trail_Memorial_half_dollar silverTroyOz "0.36169".
- Oregon_Trail_Memorial_half_dollar source "--03-11".
- Oregon_Trail_Memorial_half_dollar source "Preamble of the act authorizing the Oregon Trail Memorial half dollar".
- Oregon_Trail_Memorial_half_dollar thickness "2.15".
- Oregon_Trail_Memorial_half_dollar thicknessInch "0.08".
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- Oregon_Trail_Memorial_half_dollar value "50".
- Oregon_Trail_Memorial_half_dollar width "24".
- Oregon_Trail_Memorial_half_dollar width "25".
- Oregon_Trail_Memorial_half_dollar yearsOfMinting "9223372036854775807".
- Oregon_Trail_Memorial_half_dollar subject Category:1926_introductions.
- Oregon_Trail_Memorial_half_dollar subject Category:Commemorative_coins_of_the_United_States.
- Oregon_Trail_Memorial_half_dollar subject Category:Oregon_Trail.
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- Oregon_Trail_Memorial_half_dollar comment "The Oregon Trail Memorial half dollar was a fifty-cent piece struck intermittently by the United States Bureau of the Mint between 1926 and 1939. The coin was designed by Laura Gardin Fraser and James Earle Fraser, and commemorates those who traveled the Oregon Trail and settled the Pacific Coast of the United States in the mid-19th century.".
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