United States
1 Dollar (National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial)
United States · Silver
The coin
The story
The 1997 Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Dollar
Look closely at the heads side of this coin and you are looking at two real men. Not symbols. Not allegories. Two U.S. Park Police officers, named in the record, pressed against a wall of the dead — taking a pencil rubbing of a fallen colleague's name. Almost no American coin can do that.
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