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Morgan dollar "Morgan dollars are second only to Lincoln Cents in collector popularity."
Peace dollar "In August 1920, a paper by numismatist Farran Zerbe was read to that year's American Numismatic Association (ANA) convention in Chicago. In the paper, entitled Commemorate the Peace with a Coin for Circulation, Zerbe called for the issuance of a coin to celebrate peace..."
"Due to time constraints, de Francisci was unable to schedule a professional model to pose for the obverse depiction of Liberty. Instead, he opted to model his depiction of Liberty on his wife.[2] In describing his technique, he stated 'I opened a window of my studio and let the wind blow on her hair while she was posing for me.'"
Washington quarter "As the United States prepared to celebrate the 1932 bicentennial of the birth of its first president, George Washington ... Congress permanently replaced the Standing Liberty quarter"
Roosevelt dime "it displays President Franklin D. Roosevelt on the obverse and was authorized soon after his death in 1945. Roosevelt had been stricken with polio, and was one of the moving forces of the March of Dimes."
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