United States mints have produced a number of silver and gold souvenir coins to honor outstanding persons or to commemorate historic events.  Commemoratives are privately sponsored and are sold to the public as collectors' items.

• Columbian Exposition Half Dollar, 1893
• Albany Half Dollar, 1936
• Isabella Quarter Dollar, 1893
• Battle of Antietam Half Dollar, 1937
• Lafayette Dollar, 1900
• Arkansas Centennial Half Dollar, 1936
• Alabama Centennial Half Dollar, 1921
• San Francisco-Oakland Half Dollar, 1936
• Daniel Boone Bicentennial Half Dollar, 1934
• Cleveland Centennial Half Dollar, 1936
• Bridgeport Centennial Half Dollar, 1936
• Columbia Sesquicentennial Half Dollar, 1936
• California Diamond Jubilee Half Dollar, 1925
• Connecticut Tercentenary Half Dollar, 1935
• Cincinnati Half Dollar, 1936
• Delaware-Swedish Tercentenary Half Dollar, 1936
• Elgin Centennial Half Dollar, 1936
• Hudson Sesquicentennial Half Dollar, 1935
• Gettysburg Half Dollar, 1936
• Huguenot-Walloon Tercentenary Half Dollar, 1924
• Grant Memorial Half Dollar, 1922
• Iowa Centennial Half Dollar, 1946
• Hawaiian Sesquicentennial Half Dollar, 1928
• Lexington-Concord Sesquicentennial Half Dollar, 1925
• Lincoln-Illinois Centennial Half Dollar, 1918
• Maryland Tercentenary Half Dollar, 1934
• Long Island Tercentenary Half Dollar, 1936
• Missouri Centennial Half Dollar, 1921
• Lynchburg Sesquicentennial Half Dollar, 1936
• Monroe Doctrine Centennial Half Dollar, 1923
• Maine Centennial Half Dollar, 1920
• New Rochelle Half Dollar, 1938
• Norfolk Bicentennial Half Dollar, 1936
• Old Spanish Trail Quadricentennial Half Dollar, 1935
• Pilgrim Tercentenary Half Dollar, 1920
• Providence Tercentenary Half Dollar, 1936
• Oregon Trail Memorial Half Dollar, 1936
• Roanoke Island Half Dollar, 1937
• Panama-Pacific Exposition Half Dollar, 1915
• Robinson-Arkansas Centennial Half Dollar, 1936
• San Diego-California-Pacific Exposition Half Dollar, 1935
• Fort Vancouver Centennial Half Dollar, 1925
• Sesquicentennial of American Independence Half Dollar, 1926
• Vermont Sesquicentennial Half Dollar, 1927
• Stone Mountain Memorial Half Dollar, 1925
• Booker T. Washington Memorial Half Dollar, 1946
• Texas Centennial Half Dollar, 1935
• Washington-Carver Half Dollar, 1952
• Wisconsin Territorial Centennial Half Dollar, 1936
• York County, Maine Tercentenary Half Dollar, 1936

• Louisiana Purchase Exposition Dollar, 1903
• Panama-Pacific Exposition Quarter Eagle, 1915
• Grant Memorial Dollar, 1922
• Lewis and Clark Exposition Dollar, 1904
• Panama-Pacific Exposition Fifty-Dollar Coin, 1915
• Philadelphia Sesquicentennial Quarter Eagle, 1926
• Panama-Pacific Exposition Dollar, 1915
• McKinley Memorial Dollar, 1916