1868 Half Dollar Patterns
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About This Coin
The 1868 Half Dollar Patterns page holds the one half dollar pattern dated 1868 in the Reconstruction Era Patterns (1866-1869) series: J-651, an aluminum striking from the regular dies made at the Philadelphia Mint for the cased aluminum sets.
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