1 Dollar (US Capitol Visitor Center) obverse1 Dollar (US Capitol Visitor Center) reverse
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1 Dollar (US Capitol Visitor Center)

United States · Silver

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The 2001 Capitol Visitor Center Silver Dollar

In 1998 a gunman shot his way past Capitol security and killed two police officers. Three years later, the U.S. Mint sold a silver dollar to help bury a visitor center under the building — and the coin's $10 surcharge went straight into the concrete.

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