50 Cents, Oregon Trail Memorial, United States, 1926
date: label: Date made
content: 1926
name: label: mint
content: U.S. Mint, San Francisco
label: designer
content: Fraser, Laura Gardin
label: designer
content: Fraser, James Earle
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: One (1) 50 cent coin, Oregon Trail Memorial
label: Description (Brief)
content: United States, 1926
label: Description (Brief)
content: Obverse Image: Conestoga wagon pulled by oxen toward the setting sun.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Obverse Text: IN GOD WE TRUST / OREGON TRAIL MEMORIAL / 1926
label: Description (Brief)
content: Reverse Image: Native American man standing with arm outstretched. Map of the United States in background.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Reverse Text: UNITED STATES OF AMERICA / HALF DOLLAR
label: Description
content: This half dollar coin was struck intermittently by the United States Mint between 1926 and 1939. The coin was designed by Laura Gardin Fraser and James Earle Fraser. It was made to commemorate the hundreds of thousands of people who traveled westward on the Oregon Trail in the mid 19th century.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States
label: associated place
content: United States: Oregon
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: National Numismatic Collection
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Government Transfer: US DOTT, USM
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1985.0441.2140
label: catalog number
content: 1985.0441.2140
label: accession number
content: 1985.0441
objectType: label: Object Name
content: coin
label: Object Name
content: coin, commemorative
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall metal)
label: Physical Description
content: 0 (overall die axis)
label: Physical Description
content: 0 (overall die axis measurement)
label: Physical Description
content: struck (overall production method)
label: Measurements
content: overall:;