Daniel Boone Special Release Half Dollar

Daniel Boone was an American pioneer, explorer, woodsman, and frontiersman, whose exploits made him of the first folk heroes in United States History. He is most famous for his exploration and settlement of what is now Kentucky. In 1775, Boone blazed his Wilderness Road through the Cumberland Gap in the Appalachian Mountains from North Carolina and Tennessee into Kentucky. There he founded one of the first American settlements west of the Appalachians. His adventures - real and fiction - were influential in creating the archetypal Western hero of American folklore.

A commemorative half dollar was minted from 1934-1938 to honor the 200th Anniversary of his birth. The models were prepared by Augustus Lukemen.

The obverse depicts a portrait of Daniel Boone, where as the reverse shows Boone with Blackfish, the war chief of the Chillicothe band of the Shawnee Tribe, a tribe Boone was adopted into after capture during the revolutionary war.

This coin is in circulated condition. It will arrive encapsulated and with a black felt pouch.