1995 Olympic Basketball Half Dollar Proof Coin

The 1995 Olympic Basketball Half Dollar was part of ambitious coin program issued for the XXVI Olympiad Summer Games held in Atlanta, Georgia. A total of 16 different coin designs were issued over the course of two years.

The obverse of the Basketball Half Dollar was designed by Clint Hansen and modeled by Alfred Maletsky. The inscriptions include “Liberty”, “In God We Trust”, “XXVI Olympiad”, the date “1995” and the Olympics logo.

The reverse of the coin features the symbol for the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games in the center of a map. The inscriptions include “United States of America”, “Half Dollar”, “Atlanta”, and “E Pluribus Unum.” This reverse design was created by T. James Ferrell and used for all of the Olympic half dollar commemorative's issued in 1995.