🏀 Basketball Hall of Fame Commemoratives, 2020
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The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame (HOF) is an American history museum and hall of fame located in Springfield, Massachusetts. It serves as basketball's most complete library, in addition to promoting and preserving the history of basketball. It is dedicated to Canadian-American physician James Naismith, who conceived the sport in 1891.
The HOF inducted its first class in 1959, before opening its first facility on 17th February 1968. As of December 2024, the Hall had formally inducted over 450 players, coaches, referees, and other basketball professionals. The Boston Celtics has the most inductees, with 40.
These nine commemorative coins were authorised by Public Law 115–343 to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the HOF in 2020. The law authorised a maximum mintage of 750,000 clad half dollars, 400,000 silver dollars, and 50,000 gold half eagles. It also called for the coins to be dome-shaped (one side concave, the other convex) to reflect a basketball. The concave obverse, designed by Justin Kunz, features three players reaching for a ball. The convex reverse, designed by Donna Weaver, features a basketball falling into a net. The issue included the first American coins to display colour on them, applied before the coins had left the Mint.
The issue comprises nine coins as follows:
• $5 gold (2: uncirculated Mint State/MS, and Proof/PF)
• $1 silver (3: uncirculated Mint State/MS, Proof/PF, and colourised)
• 50c silver-clad nickel (4: uncirculated Mint State/MS, Proof/PF, colourised, and enhanced uncirculated Specimen/SP/EH/kids' set)
The West Point Mint struck both of the $5 coins, and both bear a “W” mintmark.
The Philadelphia Mint struck all three of the versions of the Silver Dollar. Accordingly, all three coins bear a “P” mintmark.
The Uncirculated Clad Half Dollar was struck at the Denver Mint and bears a “D” mintmark on its obverse. The Proof version was struck at San Francisco Mint and has an “S” mintmark. The San Francisco Mint also struck the 50c coins that had the colour applied to them.
See article at https://learn.apmex.com/coin-guide/guide-to-commemorative-values/basketball-hall-of-fame-2020/
Notes:
1. On 3rd May 2025, I acquired my seventh coin in this set (i.e., 78% of the set), and moved into the Registry “top 20” (19th) of collectors of the set.
2. All seven of my coins in this set are “Top Pop”; in the highest grade (MS/PF/SP70).
3. We visited the HOF on Tuesday 12th June 2024 during our New England and Canadian National Parks road-trip.
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🏀 Basketball Hall of Fame Commemoratives, 2020
By StephenWA
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