1892 World's Columbian Expo Half Dollar Coin - Chicago
The Columbian half dollar was a coin issued by the Bureau of the Mint in 1892 and 1893.  The first United States commemorative coin, it was issued both to raise funds for the 1893 World's Columbian Expositionand mark the quadricentennial of the first voyage to the Americas of Christopher Columbus, whose portrait it bears. The Columbian half dollar was the first American coin to depict a historical person. You are bidding on a 1892 World's Columbian Expo Half Dollar Coin - Chicago.