1 Dollar (Columbus Quincentenary)

1992 Columbus Quincentenary Silver Dollar

To mark 500 years since Columbus crossed the Atlantic, the U.S. Mint struck a dollar that splits the difference between 1492 and the space age — the Santa María on one side of the reverse, the Space Shuttle Discovery on the other. It arrived in 1992, just as the country was starting to argue about whether Columbus was worth celebrating at all.