HBF Core Collection - Browsing object 6086

HBCC-6086, Pollock-1066
1870 Half Dollar
Type: Standard Silver
Composition: Silver
Rarity: 6

This Standard Silver design features a representation of Liberty on the obverse facing right, wearing a cap with two stars. This lovely pattern is one of just over a dozen known, with ten examples recorded by Andrew Pollock.
This coin is part of a long series of patterns coined in 90% silver and struck to support the "Standard Silver Plan" to keep coinage in circulation.

Purchased 01/21/1974 from Douglas Weaver.

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