PCGS MS64 1936 Bridgeport Connecticut Centennial Commemorative Half Dollar - MS64 PCGS - PT Barnum Half Dollar Commemorative 1936

Only 25,015 of these 1936 Bridgeport Commemoratives were minted. PCGS slabbed and graded MS64.

The Bridgeport, Connecticut, Centennial half dollar (also the Bridgeport Centennial half dollar or Bridgeport half dollar) is a commemorative fifty-cent piece issued in 1936 by the United States Bureau of the Mint to honor the 100th anniversary of the incorporation of Bridgeport, Connecticut, as a city. Designed by Henry Kreis, the obverse depicts the showman P. T. Barnum, who was one of Bridgeport's most famous residents, was mayor of the city, helped develop it, and is buried there. The reverse depicts a stylized eagle.