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5 Dollars (Medal of Honor)

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The 2011 Medal of Honor $5 Gold Coin

In 2011 the U.S. Mint pressed the country's highest award for bravery into a coin barely the size of a nickel. It sold so few that today it is one of the scarcest gold commemoratives of its era.

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