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1 Dollar (Korean War)

United States · Silver

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The 1991 Korean War Memorial Dollar

The forgotten war finally got its monument, and this coin helped pay for it. Every 1991 Korean War Memorial dollar carried a $7 surcharge that went straight toward the wall of faces now standing in West Potomac Park.

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