2X2 Variety
- The Alabama half dollars were authorized in 1920 for the centennial
which was celebrated in 1919, but were not struck until 1921.
- The obverse has busts of William Wyatt Bibb,first governor of Alabama
and T.E. Kilby,governor at the time of the centennial.
- This is the first instance of the use of a living person's portrait
on a U.S. coin.
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