1959 US Coins - 5 Coin Set
You get a Silver Half-Dollar, a Silver Dime, a Copper-Nickel Nickel, and a Brass Cent.
This set commemorates the coinage prevalent in the United States of America in the year 1959. The 5 Coins are Proof-like, three of which are silver. This set comes in a plastic case which preserves their value and allows the viewer to appreciate the mirror like surfaces of proof-like coins. HALF DOLLAR COIN IS:
1959 Proof-like Silver Half Dollar 30.6mm (12.50 grams) 0.900 Silver (0.3617 oz. ASW) Reference: KM# 199 LIBERTY 1959 IN GOD WE TRUST, Benjamin Franklin facing right. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ·E· PLURIBUS UNUM HALF DOLLAR, Liberty bell with a small eagle.
QUARTER COIN IS:
1959 Proof-like Silver Dollar 24.3mm (6.25 grams) 0.900 Silver (0.1808 oz. ASW) Reference: KM# 164 LIBERTY IN GOD WE TRUST 1959, The portrait in left profile of George Washington. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA E PLURIBUS UNUM QUARTER DOLLAR, An eagle, wings spread, and standing on a shaft of arrows with two olive sprays beneath the eagle.
DIME COIN IS:
1959 Proof-like Silver Dime 17.9mm (2.50 grams) 0.900 Silver (0.0723 oz. ASW) Reference: KM# 195 LIBERTY IN GOD WE TRUST 1959 JS, The portrait in left profile of Franklin D. Roosevelt, the 32nd President of the United States from 1933 to his death in 1945. E • PLU RIB US • U NUM UNITED STATES OF AMERICA • ONE DIME •, Ahead the motto "E • PLU RIB US • U NUM", an olive branch, a torch and an oak branch symbolize respectively peace, liberty and victory.
NICKEL COIN IS:
1959 Proof-like Copper-Nickel Nickel 21.2mm (5.00 grams) Reference: KM# A192 IN GOD WE TRUST LIBERTY *, The portrait in left profile of Thomas Jefferson. E PLURIBUS UNUM MONTICELLO FIVE CENTS UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, A representation of Monticello, President Thomas Jefferson's Virginia home.
CENT COIN IS:
1959 Proof-like Brass Cent 19mm (3.11 grams) Reference: KM# 201 IN GOD WE TRUST LIBERTY 1959, The portrait in right profile of Abraham Lincoln. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA E • PLURIBUS • UNUM • ONE CENT FG, The Lincoln Memorial.
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