Lot 288
1957 US Silver Half Dollars
Sold October 23, 2025
- Price realized
- $250
Price realized is the winning bid (hammer price) and excludes buyer’s premium.
About this lot
Estimated Value: $250-400
Origin: United States
Denomination: Half Dollars
Year: 1957
Mint: Philadelphia
Grade: Various Conditions
Metal: 90% silver, 10% copper
Weight: 249.5g total
Additional Description: The 1957 U.S. Silver Half Dollar is part of the Franklin Half Dollar series, a coin that reflects mid-20th-century America’s embrace of modernity, simplicity, and civic virtue. First issued in 1948, the Franklin Half Dollar was the first circulating U.S. coin to feature a non-president and a non-mythological figure on the obverse Benjamin Franklin, one of the nation’s most complex and influential Founding Fathers. Designed by John R. Sinnock, the coin’s portrait is unembellished, almost severe in its realism, departing from the romanticized images of Liberty that had dominated earlier coinage.
Lot details
- Lot
- 288
- Closed
- October 23, 2025
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