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1 Dollar (Pattern)

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The 1871 Standard Silver Dollar

In 1871 the U.S. Mint struck a silver dollar that wears a face the country never put into pockets: Liberty in a feathered headdress, seated on a globe, the word STANDARD arching over the back. The man who designed her had been dead two years. Only a handful of these dollars exist.

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