Lot 2575

Description

USA, 1937 Battle of Antietam silver half dollar. Lightly toned, uncirculated.

In a slab by PCGS as MS66. Mintage was 50,000, the number melted 32,000 leaving a net distribution of 18,028. Battle of Antietam Half Dollar was struck in 1937 to commemorate the seventy-fifth anniversary of the famous Civil War battle to thwart Lee's invasion of Maryland. Generals George B. McClellan and Robert E. Lee were opposing commanders in the Battle of Antietam, the bloodiest single day in the Civil War, 17 September 1862. This horrific battle between the north and south culminated in the total deaths of over 25,000 Americans in what many believe to be one of the turning points in the South's struggle for freedom from what they believed as government tyranny. The first specimen went to President Roosevelt on August 12 1937.