1925 California Diamond Jubilee Half Dollar
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The 1925 California half dollar coin commemorates seventy five years of statehood. Production began at the San Francisco Mint on August 12, 1925.
The coins obverse features a "Forty-Niner" referred to as gold hunters, panning for gold. The coin's reverse features an image of a grizzly bear,
adopted as the California's official state animal in 1953.
The 1925 California half dollar had an authorized mintage of 300,000 coins. About 150,000 coins were minted for distribution the general public of which 60,000 were later melted down, leaving a net mintage of 86,594 coins. Many of these commemorative half dollar coins were spent when hard times struck during the Great Depression. Lower grade uncirculated coins are always available for a reasonable price, but high condition grades of MS 64 and better specimens are very scarce and priced accordingly. Counterfeits are not generally encountered, but cleaned and retoned coins are frequently seen.
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