Pilgrim Tercentenary half dollar
The Pilgrim Tercentenary half dollar or Pilgrim half dollar was a commemorative fifty-cent coin struck by the United States Bureau of the Mint in 1920 and 1921 to mark the 300th anniversary (tercentenary) of the arrival of the Pilgrims in North America. It was designed by Cyrus E. Dallin.
Image: Pilgrim tercentenary half dollar commemorative obverse
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Two-cent stamp for the tercentenary, depicting the landing of the Pilgrims
One-cent U.S. stamp for the tercentenary, depicting the Mayflower
Pilgrims (Plymouth Colony)
The Pilgrims, also known as the Pilgrim Fathers, were the English settlers who traveled to America on the Mayflower and established the Plymouth Colony in Plymouth, Massachusetts. The Pilgrims' leadership came from the religious congregations of Brownists, or Separatists, who had fled religious persecution in England for the tolerance of 17th-century Holland in the Netherlands.
The Embarkation of the Pilgrims (1857) by American painter Robert Walter Weir at the Brooklyn Museum
Memorial to the departure of congregation members for Holland in 1609, at Immingham on the southern bank of the Humber estuary
Permission from the city council of Leiden, allowing the Pilgrims to settle there, dated February 12, 1609.
Contemporary depiction of the Pilgrims leaving Delfthaven aboard the Speedwell by Adam Willaerts. c. 1620
