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5 Dollars (Franklin Delano Roosevelt)
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The 1997 Franklin Delano Roosevelt $5 Gold Coin
Most Americans pictured Franklin Roosevelt at a desk or a microphone. The U.S. Mint chose to show him on the bridge of a warship, wind in his cloak. In 1997 — fifty-two years after his death — they put that image on a gold coin.
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