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5 Dollars (Mark Twain)
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The Mark Twain $5 Gold Coin
For more than two centuries the U.S. minted presidents, generals, and goddesses of Liberty. Then in 2016 it struck a gold coin honoring a man famous for nothing but his sentences. The Mark Twain $5 was the first United States coin to celebrate an American for what he wrote.
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