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  2. Executive Order 6102 - Wikipedia

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    Executive Order 6102 is an executive order signed on April 5, 1933, by US President Franklin D. Roosevelt "forbidding the hoarding of gold coin, gold bullion, and gold certificates within the continental United States." The executive order was made under the authority of the Trading with the Enemy Act of 1917, as amended by the Emergency ...

  3. Nixon shock - Wikipedia

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    The Nixon shock was the effect of a series of economic measures, including wage and price freezes, surcharges on imports, and the unilateral cancellation of the direct international convertibility of the United States dollar to gold, taken by United States President Richard Nixon on 15th August 1971 in response to increasing inflation. [1][2 ...

  4. Coinage Act of 1873 - Wikipedia

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    Signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant on February 12, 1873. The Coinage Act of 1873 or Mint Act of 1873 was a general revision of laws relating to the Mint of the United States. By ending the right of holders of silver bullion to have it coined into standard silver dollars, while allowing holders of gold to continue to have their ...

  5. History of the United States dollar - Wikipedia

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    For as long as the United States remained neutral in the war, it remained the only country to maintain its gold standard, doing so without restriction on import or export of gold from 1915 to 1917. When the United States became a belligerent in the war, President Wilson banned gold export, thereby suspending the gold standard for foreign ...

  6. Presidential dollar coins - Wikipedia

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    2007. Presidential dollar coins (authorized by Pub. L. 109–145 (text) (PDF), 119 Stat. 2664, enacted December 22, 2005) are a series of United States dollar coins with engravings of relief portraits of U.S. presidents on the obverse and the Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World) on the reverse. From 2007 to 2011, Presidential ...

  7. Eisenhower dollar - Wikipedia

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    The Eisenhower dollar is a one-dollar coin issued by the United States Mint from 1971 to 1978; it was the first coin of that denomination issued by the Mint since the Peace dollar series ended in 1935. The coin depicts President Dwight D. Eisenhower on the obverse, and a stylized image honoring the 1969 Apollo 11 Moon mission on the reverse.

  8. List of presidents of the United States on currency - Wikipedia

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    James Madison $5 commemorative gold coin. Coin for circulation. 2007 Dollar (obverse), 4th of four U.S. presidents issued in 2007. Commemorative coins. 1993 Bill of Rights commemorative coin series. Half dollar; Silver dollar; $5 gold piece; $500000 gold ingot; Banknotes. James Madison – Series of 1934 $5000 bill. United States Note. $5000 ...

  9. United States Bicentennial coinage - Wikipedia

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    The United States Bicentennial coinage is a set of circulating commemorative coins, consisting of a quarter, half dollar and dollar struck by the United States Mint in 1975 and 1976. Regardless of when struck, each coin bears the double date 1776–1976 on the normal obverses for the Washington quarter, Kennedy half dollar and Eisenhower dollar.

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