50 Dollars Big Boy

Features

Issuer	Marshall Islands
Period	Republic (1979-date)
Type	Non-circulating coins
Year	1996
Value	50 Dollars (50 USD)
Currency	Dollar (1986-date)
Composition	Silver (.999)
Weight	31.11 g
Diameter	38.61 mm
Thickness	3.3 mm
Shape	Round
Technique	Milled
Orientation	Medal alignment ↑↑
Number	N# 155481
References	KM# 292 Standard Catalog of World Coins (86 volumes). , Schön# 316 Battenberg Gietl Verlag (publisher). Weltmünzkatalog. Battenberg Gietl Verlag, Regenstauf, Bavaria, Germany (4 volumes).

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Commemorative issue

Big Boy

Series: World's Legendary Steam Locomotives

Obverse

National seal of the Republic of the Marshall Islands.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
REPUBLIC OF THE MARSHALL ISLANDS
$50 1996
SEAL
JEPILPILIN KE EJUKAAN

Translation: Accomplishment through joint effort.

Reverse

Big Boy steam locomotive.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
FIFTY DOLLARS
S CT
BIG BOY
1996

Designer: Craig Thorpe

Edge

Reeded

Mint

S	Sunshine Minting, Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, United States (1979-date)

Comments

Built in the early 1940's, Big Boy weighed over 594 tons, the heaviest reciprocating steam locomotive ever manufactured. Only 25 were constructed, 8 remain.
(COA)

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Date					VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
Undetermined
1996 S												Proof

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Actual silver weight: 0.999 oz

Current silver price: 68.40 USD/oz (see silver price

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