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1 Dollar (Eisenhower Centennial)

United States · Silver

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The 1990 Eisenhower Centennial Dollar

In 1990 the Mint put two men named Eisenhower on the same silver dollar — the young general and the older president, facing apart. Then it did something it has done almost nowhere else: it sent the coin's surcharge to pay down the federal debt.

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