5 Dollars (Star Spangled Banner)

The 2012 Star-Spangled Banner $5 Gold Coin

In September 1814, a Washington lawyer watched a British fleet shell a Baltimore fort all night and, at dawn, saw the flag still flying. The poem he scrawled became the national anthem. Two hundred years later, the U.S. Mint turned that morning into a gold coin — and fewer people bought it than you might think.