United States
½ Dollar (Civil War Battlefields)
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The 1995 Civil War Battlefield Half Dollar
In 1995 the U.S. Mint struck a half dollar to mark a quieter centennial than most: not a battle, but the moment Americans first started buying battlefields to save them. The man who designed it had spent his life painting that war. And the $2 added to every coin went straight to the fields at Gettysburg and Antietam.
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