United States
½ Dollar (U.S. Marshals Service 225th Anniversary)
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The US Marshals 225th Anniversary Half Dollar
In 1789, before there was an FBI or a Secret Service, George Washington signed a law that created the first federal lawmen in America. This half dollar — struck in 2015 to mark 225 years of the US Marshals Service — puts a frontier marshal and a modern one on the same small disc of metal.
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