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1933-S Liberty Walking Half Dollar NGC MS65

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1933-S Liberty Walking Half Dollar NGC MS65
<b>1933-S Liberty Walking Half Dollar. NGC graded MS65.</b> A brilliant white and extremely lustrous Gem that has superlative fields and devices for the grade. What&#39;s more, all minute detail is fully evident on this bold piece, so it is obvious that the dies struck it the requisite blow without the least diminishment of power from the force of the coining press.

The name Alcatraz is derived from the Spanish &#34;Alcatraces.&#34; In 1775, the Spanish explorer Juan Manuel de Ayala was the first to sail into what we now know as San Francisco Bay -- his expedition mapped the bay, and named one of the three islands Alcatraces; over time, the name was Anglicized to Alcatraz. While this famous prison rock seems to have no connection with a Gem MS65 1933-S half dollar, there is a tenuous link:

The U.S. Army used Alcatraz island for more than 80 years -- from 1850 until 1933, when the island was transferred to the U.S. Department of Justice for use by the Federal Bureau of Prisons. The Federal Government had decided to open a maximum-security, minimum-privilege penitentiary to deal with the most incorrigible inmates in Federal prisons, and to show the law-abiding public that the Federal Government was serious about stopping the rampant crime of the 1920&#39;s and 1930&#39;s. Built in 1933, from 1934, when it opened, the average population was only about 260-275 during its time as a prison. Many prisoners actually considered the living conditions &#40;for instance, always one man to a cell&#41; at Alcatraz to be better than other Federal prisons, and several inmates actually requested a transfer to Alcatraz <b>&#40;PCGS # 6591&#41;</b>

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