**Originally Listed At $200**

North America, USA, ca. 1926 CE. 50 cents (half dollar), Oregon Trail Memorial Commemorative. PCGS 9340.65/16854168. This was the first year that this coin, intermittently produced between 1926 and 1939, was minted. It commemorates those who traveled the Trail and was the result of lobbying by Ezra Meeker, who had traveled it in 1852 and who appeared before a Senate committee at the age of 95 to ask for a commemorative coin to be used to fund historical markers for it. Size: 1.2" W (3 cm)

Provenance: private Toluca Lake, California, USA collection; ex-private Berk collection, Chicago, Illinois, USA

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#144996

MS 65. Slabbed. Graded by PCGS. The term slabbed refers to coins that have been submitted to a professional grading service to certify the grade of the coin. Grading services experts examine the coin, assign the coin a grade, and seal it into a hard plastic 'slab' with a label that indicates coin type, date, mintmark, variety, and grade. The holder prevents any tampering or fraudulent replacement of the certified coin with something else. Most collectors and dealers readily accept the grades of slabbed coins. Given this, slabbed coins are favored highly.