The DFT History of the US Constitution Half Dollars Date Set

About This Set: Why discuss the US Constitution together with coins? Coins are not merely dated artifacts. They are both silent witnesses to the constitutional story of the United States and participants in its creation. Having circulated among the very people whose lives were shaped by the events they commemorate, these coins passed through the hands of soldiers who fought the battles, lawyers who argued the landmark cases, factory workers who built the Nation, mothers who bought rationed groceries, railroad conductors, bankers, and children buying stamps. They circulated while those events were unfolding. Each coin bears silent witness to the constitutional history of its year. Here we endeavor to give those silent witnesses a voice: "If this coin could talk, what constitutional story would it tell?"