World Silver & Bronze Coins
Lot 2558 Session 8 (2:30pm Wednesday) World Silver & Bronze Coins
Estimate $250
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SOLD $300
USA, 1936 CLEVELAND CENTENNIAL - GREAT LAKES EXPOSITION, commemorative silver half dollar. Brilliant, uncirculated.
In a slab by NGC as MS66. Mintage was 50,030. Moses Cleaveland (1754-1806) Revolutionary War general, and later state congressman from Canterbury, Connecticut became one of the directors for the Connecticut Land Company, which bought 3,267,000 acres of the 'Western Reserve' area in what is now north-eastern Ohio. He laid out the city later to be named after him (it dropped its extra 'a' about 1830, becoming known as Cleveland). On the reverse, is the five Great Lakes with their nine principal cities marked by stars, that for Cleveland (at the bottom compass point) the largest.
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