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List of most expensive coins Price Year Type Grade Issuing country Provenance Firm Date of sale $18,900,000 1933 1933 double eagle: MS-65 CAC United States: King Farouk of Egypt: Sotheby's [1] June 8, 2021 $12,000,000 1794 Flowing Hair dollar: SP-66 CAC United States Neil, Carter Private sale [2] January 24, 2013 $9,360,000 1787 Brasher ...
Presidential dollar coins (authorized by Pub. L. 109–145 (text), 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.
There have been 46 presidents in U.S. history, but only a few appear on coins and bills that most people actually see. ... Another valuable coin in the series is the 2007 George Washington without ...
[10] The Library of Congress eagle of 2000 was the first bi-metallic coin issued by the US Mint. [11] Later that year, the mint released a 1,000 Icelandic króna coin commemorating the 1,000th anniversary of Leif Ericson's discovery of the Americas. This coin was struck on the same planchet as the silver dollar that also commemorated the event ...
Coin Obverse design Reverse design Composition Mintage Available Obverse Reverse 50¢ Booker T. Washington Memorial half dollar Booker T. Washington Hall of Fame for Great Americans and a log cabin 90% Ag, 10% Cu Uncirculated: 12,004 (P) 12,004 D 12,004 S [3] 1948 50¢ Minnesota Territorial Centennial half dollar (cancelled) Unknown Unknown 90% ...
President Franklin D. Roosevelt died on April 12, 1945, after leading the United States through much of the Great Depression and World War II.Roosevelt had suffered from polio since 1921 and had helped found and strongly supported the March of Dimes to fight that crippling disease, so the ten-cent piece was an obvious way of honoring a president popular for his war leadership.
Also, unlike any other denomination of circulating U.S. coinage (but in common with the Presidential $1 coins), the value is inscribed in numerals on the reverse. The act passed by Congress requires that 20% of the total dollar coins minted in any year during the Presidential $1 Coin Program be Sacagawea dollars bearing the new design.
$10: Anna Harrison eagle Anna Harrison: Mrs. Harrison reading to her children Au 99.99% Authorized: 40,000 (max) Uncirculated: 3,645 W Proof: 6,251 W 2009 $10: Letitia Tyler eagle Letitia Tyler: Mrs. Tyler with children on Cedar Grove Plantation: Au 99.99% Authorized: 40,000 (max) Uncirculated: 3,240 W Proof: 5,296 W 2009 $10: Julia Tyler eagle ...