Lot 1330
1920 Starr. NGC graded MS-66. Original, speckly silver surfaces and a pleasing strike, though it isn't quite perfect. Probably lived in an album for years and years, producing the color seen today. Tough date in high grade such as this: NGC has done just 2 MS66s; PCGS has called 4 coins MS66. Nobody's graded one higher yet.
1920 is a year that has generally been somewhat overlooked by collectors. It's hard to say why. But it's certainly a sleeper year for quality. This coin verifies that assertion: very few halves made it intact through the upcoming tumultuous decade, and then came the Depression, when whatever was saved probably got spent--over and over and over again, till the coins were smooth from use.
So, if you are searching for some challenges, think about doing a neat set of 1920 half dollars. The 1920-D will be the biggest challenge, but the coin in this lot is seldom found--especially in a grade like this. Your resulting "three coin collection" might not seem like much to the casual observer, but the coins will be beautiful and really scarce and great symbols of their times: the Great War had just concluded, American patriotism was high, and the Roaring Twenties lay just ahead.
In 1920, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Woodrow Wilson, who quoted Abraham Lincoln in his acceptance speech, recalling the hard-won lessons of an earlier war. Wilson said, "Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us dare to do our duty as we understand it." Amen.
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