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American coin collectors had become bored with commemorative coins. As the Booker T. Washington and Washington-Carver Halves were little desired at that time, thousands of
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The coin would be produced for the following three years. They were often sold in three-coin sets (one coin for each mint mark), although large quantities of the 1951, 1952, 1953-S and 1954-S coins were struck for sale as singles. The sets were sold for between $ 9 and $ 10 each, although this would
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later be raised to $ 12 per set for the 1954 coins. In 1952, an attempt was made to issue the coins through banks. By the time the program ended in 1954, over a million coins had been distributed.
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those coins were returned to the Mint for melting, while thousands more still held by banks were sold to speculators for a small premium (usually pennies) above face value.
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