United States
1 Dollar (Jackie Robinson)
United States · Silver
The coin
The story
The 1997 Jackie Robinson Silver Dollar
In 1947 Jackie Robinson stepped onto a major-league field and changed America. Fifty years later the U.S. Mint put him on a silver dollar — and barely anyone bought the plain version. That accident of indifference turned it into one of the scarcest modern commemoratives in the country.
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