

United States
5 Dollars (National Park Service)
United States · Gold
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The Coin That Honors Two Men Arguing in the Woods
In 1903 a president and a wild-eyed naturalist slipped away from the press and went camping in Yosemite. Thirteen years later the country built an agency to protect places like it. A century after that, the Mint struck this small gold coin to remember all of it — and almost nobody bought one.
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