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5 Dollar (American Legion 100th Anniversary)

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The American Legion 100th Anniversary $5 Gold Coin

In the spring of 1919, a few hundred American soldiers met in Paris to build something that would outlast the war they had just survived. A century later, the U.S. Mint put the Eiffel Tower on a tiny gold coin to mark the day — and sold fewer of them than almost anyone expected.

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