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1 Dollar "Eisenhower Bicentennial Dollar" · “Eisenhower Bicentennial Dollar

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The Bicentennial Eisenhower Dollar

In 1974 the U.S. Mint asked the whole country to design a coin for America's 200th birthday. The dollar went to a 22-year-old art student who set the Liberty Bell against the surface of the Moon — the youngest person ever to design a circulating U.S. coin.

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