1976 HALF DOLLAR - BICENTENNIAL
Mintage:
Circulation strikes: 234,308,000
Proofs: 4
Designer: Obverse
by Gilroy Roberts; reverse by Seth Huntington
Diameter: ±31
millimeters
Metal content:
Outer layers - ±75% Copper, ±25% Nickel
Center - 100% Copper
Weight: ±175
grains (±11.3 grams)
Edge: Reeded
Mintmark: None (for
Philadelphia, PA) centered above the date
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Varieties:
Notes:
Four three-piece sets (Quarter Dollar, Half Dollar,
and Dollar) were struck as Proofs but without mintmarks. One
set went to then-President Gerald Ford, another to the American
Revolution Bicentennial Commission administrator, John W. Warner, another
to Treasury Secretary William E. Simon, and the other to Gerald Ford's appointment
secretary, Anne L. Armstrong.
Sources and/or
recommended reading:
"The PCGS Population Report, August 2000" by The
Professional Coin Grading Service
Herbert, Alan, "Coin Clinic",
NUMISMATIC NEWS, October 5, 1999, Krause Publications, Iola, WI, p.
38 (see also August 27, 1974 front page of NUMISMATIC NEWS)
"Where are they
now?" by Summer Douglass, COIN WORLD, September 10, 2001, page
46
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