![]() Shipping and Handling and Hold Timeĭelivery dates posted by our website - and by the USPS or other carriers are "Estimated Dates" only. #1893 columbian exposition half dollar drivers#Please be advised that if we require a drivers license or other ID prior to shipment the 0-3 business day shipping window will begin upon receipt of requested information. ![]() Customers will be contacted if packages are held longer than 3 business days. Wire transfers require a 2-4 -day hold time prior to shipment. ![]() Under rare circumstances packages may be held longer. Great American Coin ships most orders within 0-3 business. Insurance and/or tracking may be included in international shipments at buyers expense. Insurance and/or tracking is available for international shipments, however, it is generally cost prohibitive. Great American Coin will review all international shipments individually, and reserves the right to cancel any transaction at our sole discretion based upon location or for any other reason. We ship to the United States and select international countries. The design features the obverse of the coin depicting a bust of Columbus based on a bust by Olin Levi Warner, while the reverse shows an image of the Santa Maria above the Eastern and Westerns hemispheres of the earth.Īll coins are random and will be from any date either 1892 o will be circulated. The coin was designed by Charlesef Engraver or the United States Mint. This amazing piece of United States history was minted in the years 18 to raise funds for the World's Columbian Exposition held in 1893, as well as to commemorate the quadricentennial of the voyage of Christopher Columbus to the Americas. The Great American Coin Company is honored to offer one of the most collectible United States coins ever minted - Columbian Exposition Half Dollar The Great American Coin Company is pleased to offer our clients the opportunity to purchase circulated America's first commemorative half dollar - 90% silver Columbian Exposition. Further, we do not guarantee any raw coin or currency to meet any specific grade by any other standards.AMERICA'S FIRST COMMEMORATIVE HALF DOLLARĬOLOMBIAN EXPOSITION 1892/1893 - INVIDUALLY OR IN ROLLS OF 20 We will not specify or guarantee a grade unless the coin or currency has been professionally graded by PCGS, NGC, or PMG. We will state our opinion, but, you be the judge of the quality of our raw currency and coins. ![]() We do not offer any of our currency or coins that are raw with grades, we offer them only with photos and our asking price. International Shipping: Not Available At This TimeĭISCLAIMER: Please examine the photos carefully and purchase based on the condition you see and believe the item is. Payment: PayPal (PP Balance, Major Credit & Debit Cards) Barber proved unsatisfactory, fair organizers turned to a design by artist Olin Levi Warner, which after modification by Barber and his assistant, George T. When initial sketches by Mint Chief Engraver Charles E. Fair official James Ellsworth wanted the new coin to be based on a 16th-century painting he owned by Lorenzo Lotto, reputedly of Columbus, and pushed for this through the design process. Congress granted an appropriation, and allowed it to be in the form of commemorative half dollars, which legislators and organizers believed could be sold at a premium. The coin stems from the desire of the Columbian Exposition's organizers to gain federal money to complete construction of the fair. The Columbian half dollar was the first American coin to depict a historical person. The first traditional United States commemorative coin, it was issued both to raise funds for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition and to mark the quadricentennial of the first voyage to the Americas of Christopher Columbus, whose portrait it bears. ![]() The Columbian half dollar is a coin issued by the Bureau of the Mint in 18. In our opinion, we believe this coin to be in extra fine condition. We are offering a 1893 Columbian Exposition silver half dollar. ![]()
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