1948 Half Dollar Patterns

About This Coin

The 1948 Half Dollar Patterns is a United States half dollar from the Modern Patterns (1943 to Date) series — an early issue, 3rd of 15 years in the series. The obverse features various experimental designs for proposed coinage changes and the reverse displays various experimental designs. Minted during the post-war economic boom, the final era of silver circulating coinage in the United States before the Coinage Act of 1965. Designed by Various U.S. Mint designers.