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5 Dollars (Bill of Rights)
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The 1993 Bill of Rights $5 Gold — Madison's Coin
In 1993 the United States put James Madison on a tiny gold coin and showed him doing the one thing history remembers him for: reading the Bill of Rights. Two hundred years earlier he had pushed those ten amendments through a skeptical Congress. This coin is the country's quiet thank-you.
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