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Half Dollars 1866 With Motto. PCGS graded Mint State 65. <b>While this consignment was mostly comprised of toned seated half dollars, the gentleman who owns these also acquired several first-rate brilliant specimens. The 1866 With Motto offered at the present time is a really sharp, gleaming gem, as brilliant as any "brilliant Uncirculated" 1866 can imaginably be! Here and there we find a bagmark including several small ones on Liberty and a little chattermark below IC in AMERICA on the reverse. The numerical grade speaks for itself on this, the first year of issue with IN GOD WE TRUST on a scroll above the eagle. Nothing brings together the citizens of a nation better than a crisis shared in common. The American Civil War, which ended the year before this coin was struck, had torn the country asunder. Northern policy makers, realizing this, bethought themselves a tried-and-true way for helping instill courage in an apprehensive public: a national coin motto was devised and, beginning in 1864, put on our coinage. It was not until 1866, however, that the Philadelphia Mint (which makes dies for the branch mints as well as for its own use) found time to include the motto IN GOD WE TRUST on silver issues like this half dollar. From then on, America's motto never failed to be seen on work-a-day pieces.</b> <p align="center">Superior Galleries was founded in 1929 and has been a leader in
the numismatic auction business since 1971.</p> <p align="center"><b>Consignments wanted for June 2 & 3, 2002 Pre-Long Beach Sale.</b></p> <p align="center"><b>Call Steve Deeds</b> at (800) 421-0754 ext 230.</p>
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