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1 Dollar (5-Star Generals)

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The 2013 5-Star Generals Silver Dollar

In 2013 the U.S. Mint did something it rarely does: it put two specific generals on a single silver dollar — George Marshall, who built the army that won World War II, and Dwight Eisenhower, who led it ashore in Normandy. Both had passed through the same Kansas schoolhouse, and the coin was struck to pay for it.

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