United States 1936-S half dollar KM-174
This commemorative was struck to honor the opening of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge connecting the two cities. It was sold for $1.50 at the time of issue. It is among the more available issues of the year.
Legislation
PUBLIC—NO. 820—74TH CONGRESS]
[S. 4464]
AN ACT
To authorize the coinage of 50-cent pieces in celebration of the opening of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in commemoration of the opening of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge there shall be coined at a mint of the United States to be designated by the Director of the Mint not to exceed two hundred thousand silver 50-cent pieces of standard size, weight, and composition, and of a special appropriate single design to be fixed by the Director of the Mint, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, but the United States shall not be subject to the expense of making the necessary dies and other preparations for this coinage.
SEC. 2. The coins herein authorized shall bear the date 1936, irrespective of the year in which they are minted or issued, shall be legal tender in any payment to the amount of their face value, and shall be issued only upon the request of the San Francisco Clearing House Association, upon payment by it of the par value of such coins, but not less than twenty-five thousand such coins shall be issued to it at any one time and no such coins shall be issued after the expiration of one year after the date of enactment of this Act. Such coins may be disposed of at par or at a premium by such association and the net proceeds shall be used by it in defraying the expenses incidental and appropriate to the commemoration of such event.
SEC. 3. All laws now in force relating to the subsidiary silver coins of the United States and the coining or striking of the same, regulating and guarding the process of coinage, providing for the purchase of material, and for the transportation, distribution, and redemption of coins, for the prevention of debasement or counterfeiting, for the security of the coins, or for any other purposes, whether such laws are penal or otherwise, shall, so far as applicable, apply to the coinage herein authorized.
Approved, June 26, 1936.
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Recorded Mintage: 71,424.
Specification: 192.9 grains = 12.50 grams, 0.900 fine silver, 30.6 mm diameter, reeded edge. Designed by Jacques Schnier.
Catalog reference: KM 174.
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- Slabaugh, Arlie R., United States Commemorative Coinage, 2nd Ed., Racine, WI: Whitman Publishing, 1975.
- Yeoman, R. S., and Kenneth Bressett (ed.), A Guide Book of United States Coins, 65th Ed., Atlanta, GA: Whitman Publishing, 2011
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