United States
1 Dollar (Bicentennial of the Congress)
United States · Silver
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The 1989 Congress Bicentennial Silver Dollar
In 1989, the United States made a silver dollar to honor the one institution Americans love to complain about: Congress. The result is quietly one of the richest commemoratives of its era — a coin carrying a statue cast by an enslaved man and a ceremonial mace older than the silver in your pocket.
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