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Coin Details

Origin/Country: United States
Design Description: SILVER COMMEMORATIVES
Item Description: 50C 1950 S BOOKER T. WASHINGTON
Full Grade: NGC MS 66
Owner: Dutch1865

Owner Comments:

Washington worked in salt furnaces and coal mines in West Virginia for several years to earn money. He made his way east to Hampton Institute now Hampton University in Hampton, VA, which was established to educate freedmen and their descendants, where he also worked to pay for his studies (See https://virginiahistory.org/learn/civil-rights-movement-virginia/hampton-institute-and-booker-t-washington)

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