FOR THEY ARE FOREVER RELEVENT
1995 P CIVIL WAR S$1, MINT STATE


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Set Details
Origin/Country: United States
Design Description: MODERN COMMEMORATIVES
Item Description: S$1 1995 P CIVIL WAR BATTLEFIELDS
Grade: NGC MS 69
Owner: RMK-Collectibles
 
Winning Set: FOR THEY ARE FOREVER RELEVENT
Date Added: 12/27/2012
Research: See NGC's Census Report for this Coin

Owner's Description

The American Civil War aka, the War between the States or simply the Civil War, was a civil fought from 1861 to 1865 in the United States after many southern slave states declared their secession and formed the Confederate States of America. The remaining states were known as the "Union".
NOW YOU KNOW. 1,030,000 war casualties due to the war. including about 620,000 soldier deaths, 2/3 of which were by disease, and approximately 50,000 civilians.
Catalog #KM-255. NGC Universal ID: 28SX. Mintage: 45,866. Population: 1033. Pre-issue Price: $27.00. Regular Price: $29.00.
100 years of Civil War battlefields preservation was the reason for the commemoration of the 1995 Civil War Battlefields Silver Dollar.1895 was the establishment of the Gettysburg National Park.
The obverse of the silver dollar is a soldier offering a canteen to a wounded soldier.The reverse is of the Gettysburg landscape, and a quote from Joshua Chamberlain who actually fought in the battle.
Proof and uncirculated coins were struck. San Francisco produced the proofs and Philadelphia the uncirculated. Continued on the proof remarks Joshua Chamberlain quote.

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