50 Cents, Cincinnati Musical Center, United States, 1936: Museum Object and Cultural History
50 Cents, Cincinnati Musical Center, United States, 1936: Date made: 1936. depicted: Foster, Stephen Collins. mint: United States Mint.
The object in the museum catalogue
Obverse Text: UNITED STATES OF AMERICA / STEPHEN FOSTER - AMERICA'S TROUBADOUR / HALF DOLLAR
Reverse Text: CINCINNATI / A MUSIC CENTER OF AMERICA / IN GOD WE TRUST / E PLURIBUS UNUM / LIBERTY / 1886 / 1936
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date made: 1936
- depicted: Foster, Stephen Collins
- mint: United States Mint
- Object Name: coin
- Object Name: coin, commemorative
- Physical Description: silver (overall metal)
- Physical Description: 0 (overall die axis)
- Physical Description: 0 (overall die axis measurement)
- Physical Description: struck (overall production method)
- Measurements: overall:;
- place made: United States
- associated place: United States: Ohio, Cincinnati
- ID Number: 1979.1263.01226
- catalog number: 1979.1263.01226
- accession number: 1979.1263
- catalog number: 01374
- Credit Line: Chase Manhattan
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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