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Hawaii Sesquicentennial half dollar is a featured article; it (or a previous version of it) has been identified as one of the best articles produced by the Wikipedia community. Even so, if you can update or improve it, please do so.

This article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page as Today's featured article on February 13, 2019.

Article milestones
Date	Process	Result
October 25, 2015	Good article nominee	Listed
July 18, 2016	Featured article candidate	Promoted

A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on September 21, 2015.

The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that sculptor Chester Beach was so tired of complaints about the design of the Hawaii Sesquicentennial half dollar (pictured) that he suggested he be sent to Hawaii to absorb the atmosphere?

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Historical Context[edit]

This is an excellent article from the perspective of numismatics. But, because it’s featured on the main page, this changes its significance to the topic of Hawai’i and it’s history. For example, Captain Cook did not discover Hawai’i, which the coin states as fact on it obverse. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2605:E000:90D7:2600:BCF9:E0D:1CF0:3215 (talk) 16:12, 13 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The article goes to some length to point that out. It will be off the main page in seven hours. What then?--Wehwalt (talk) 17:33, 13 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]