Country: | United States |
Denomination: | Arkansas–Robinson half dollar |
Value: | 50 cents (0.50 |
Unit: | US dollars) |
Mass G: | 12.5 |
Diameter Mm: | 30.6 |
Edge: | Reeded |
Silver Troy Oz: | 0.3617 |
Composition: | 90.0% silver10.0% copper |
Years Of Minting: | – |
Mintage: | 25,265 |
Mint Marks: | None, all pieces struck at the Philadelphia Mint without mint mark. |
Catalogue Number: | --> |
Obverse: | Arkansas-robinson half dollar commemorative reverse.jpg |
Obverse Design: | Eagle, Arkansas state flag |
Obverse Designer: | Edward E. Burr |
Obverse Design Date: | 1935 |
Reverse: | Arkansas-robinson half dollar commemorative obverse.jpg |
Reverse Design: | Joseph T. Robinson |
Reverse Designer: | Henry Kreis |
Reverse Design Date: | 1936 |
The Arkansas–Robinson half dollar is a commemorative fifty-cent piece struck by the United States Bureau of the Mint in 1926. It is a special issue of the Arkansas Centennial half dollar featuring a different reverse design from Henry Kreis.[1] [2]
The coin featured Joseph Taylor Robinson, who represented Arkansas in the U.S. Senate at the time. He was the fourth of four living persons depicted on U.S. coinage.