1883 HAWAIIAN HALF DOLLAR
Mintage:
Circulation strikes: 87,755
(700,000 were minted, but
612,245 were melted)
Proofs: at least 26
Designer: Charles E. Barber
Diameter: ±30
millimeters
Metal content:
Silver - 90%
Copper - 10%
Weight: ±193
grains (±12.5 grams)
Edge: Reeded
Mintmark: None (for
Philadelphia, PA)
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Images courtesy of Superior
Galleries Recent
offerings:
NGC Proof-63 (illustrated
above). Ex - Superior Galleries "ANA 2001 Nation
Money Show" Auction, March 8-9, 2001, Lot 549, where it was
described as follows: " for $6,200 "to the book" "About Uncirculated, on the cusp of full Mint
State." Ex - Stack's "65th Anniversary Sale", October 17-19, 2000,
Lot 1617, "Gould-Bressett 99, Medcalf-Russell CS-4"
Notes: Sources and/or recommended
reading:
"Walter Breen's Complete Encyclopedia Of U.S. And Colonial
Coins" by Walter Breen
"Hawaiian Money
Standard Catalog, Second Edition" by Donald Medcalf and Ronald
Russell
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