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Coin Date: 1952-PDS Denomination (Short): Set Denomination (Long): Half dollar Variety: Washington-Carver Desg: MS Mint Mark: Various Composition: 90% silver; 10% copper Mintage: 8,006 Strike Type: Business Coinage Type: Classic Commemorative Coinage Years: 1951-1954 Mint Location: Various Diameter: 30.6 Fineness: 0.9 Weight (Grams): 12.5 Weight (Ounces): 0.36169 Designer: Isaac Scott Hathaway Edge: Reeded Obverse Description: Features overlapping portraits of George W. Carver and Booker T. Washington with the words UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, IN GOD WE TRUST, and E PLURIBUS UNUM on the outer periphery. The inner periphery bears the names of those honored along with the words HALF DOLLAR. The date is presented to the left of the portraits at 9 o'clock. Reverse Description: Depicts a map of the United States with the letters U.S.A. overprinted. The periphery bears the words FREEDOM AND OPPORTUNITY FOR ALL * AMERICANISM. General Notes:
The 1952 Washington-Carver half dollars mark the second year of four years for this multiple-year commemorative type. The obverse features -- jugate portrait of social-reform contemporaries Booker T. Washington and George Washington Carver, the former an author and presidential advisor and the latter -- scientist and advisor. The coin was designed by Isaac Scott Hathaway, who became the first African American to design -- U.S. coin upon the release of the Booker T. Washington half dollar in 1946.
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Washington-Carver halves were minted in Philadelphia, Denver, and San Francisco in 1952, and all of these pieces are considered quite common. They are especially so in uncirculated grades, with the vast majority encountered in the grades of MS62 through MS65. Examples grading MS66 are scarce and those in MS67 or higher are rare.
