1913 Barber Half Dollar (1892-1915)

Intriguing History

By 1913, the Progressive Era was in full swing -- Theodore Roosevelt's reforms gave way to Taft's, muckraking journalists exposed corporate abuses, and the country capped the era in 1913 by creating the Federal Reserve and ratifying the income tax amendment, reshaping American finance for good. This Barber half dollar circulated as a substantial piece of silver through exactly this period.