1 Dollar (World War II) obverse1 Dollar (World War II) reverse
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1 Dollar (World War II)

United States · Silver

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The Silver Dollar That Carries D-Day and Eisenhower's Last Order

On its face, a soldier wades ashore under fire at Normandy. On its back, the words General Eisenhower gave his troops the morning of D-Day: "We will accept nothing less than full victory." This is a coin built around a single sentence — and the half-million Americans who lived it.

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