National Baseball Hall of Fame commemorative coins

The National Baseball Hall of Fame commemorative coins were issued by the United States Mint in 2014 to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the opening of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, New York. The coins consisted of a copper-nickel clad half dollar, a silver dollar, and a gold half eagle ($5 coin), each issued in both proof and uncirculated varieties. The coins were the first from the Mint to be struck curved, with a concave obverse and a convex reverse.

The coins featured a common obverse from the Californian artist Cassie McFarland, whose design, a baseball glove, was selected after a national competition was held. The common reverse, as mandated by Congress, depicts a baseball design from Mint sculptor-engraver Don Everhart. Everhart engraved both the common obverse and reverse of the coins. The Mint faced difficulties during production, as the curved coins were unlike anything they had struck before. The half eagles were minted at the West Point Mint, the dollars were minted at the Philadelphia Mint, and the uncirculated and proof half dollars were minted at the Denver Mint and San Francisco Mint, respectively.

The coins were released to the public on March 27, 2014, and were immediately popular with collectors, with the gold half eagle coins selling out the day of release. The dollar would also sell out and the half dollar saw over half its authorized mintage sold, a massive success for the program. Surcharges collected from sales of the coins totaled $7.9 million and were paid to the Hall to fund its operations. The clad half dollar won the Coin of the Year Award for 2014-dated issues, and also won the Most Innovative Coin category. The Mint would continue to issue curved coins, such as the Apollo 11 50th Anniversary commemorative coins in 2019 and the Basketball Hall of Fame commemorative coins in 2020.