2019-11-13 Wed

This silver half dollar was issued by the United States of America in the year 1936 with the theme of Cincinnati Music Center Hall. This half dollar was issued to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Cincinnati, OH, as a center of music and its contribution to the art of music.

Cincinnati Music Hall was built in 1878, it is considered as the most recognizable buildings of the United States of America, in the year 1975 it was designated as National Historic Landmark by the U.S. Department of the Interior for its distinctive Venetian Gothic architecture.

The obverse of this coin depicts the portrait of American composer Stephen Foster. The reverse of this coin depicts a female figure kneeling and holding a lyre.

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