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1 Dollar (March of Dimes)

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The 2015 March of Dimes Silver Dollar

Franklin Roosevelt is on the dime because of the March of Dimes. In 2015, on the charity's 75th anniversary, the Mint brought him back on a silver dollar — and set him beside Jonas Salk, the scientist whose polio vaccine those dimes paid for.

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