United States
1 Dollar (Leif Ericson Millennium)
United States · Silver
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The Leif Ericson Millennium Silver Dollar
In the year 2000, the U.S. Mint did something it had never done before: it made a coin in partnership with a foreign country. The subject was Leif Ericson, the Norse explorer who set foot in North America around the year 1000 — half a millennium before Columbus.
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