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| 1999 Silver American Eagle MS69 PCGS |
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S$1 1999 EAGLE
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The truth is, if you asked me to choose between winning the TdF and cancer, I would choose cancer. Odd as it sounds, I would rather have the title of cancer survivor than winner of the Tour, because of what it has done for me as a human being, a man, a husband, a son and a father. -Lance Armstrong. - 1999 SILVER AMERICAN EAGLE NGC MS69
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| 2000 Silver American Eagle MS69 PCGS |
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S$1 2000 EAGLE
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During our lives we're faced with so many elements as well, we experience so many setbacks, and fight such a hand-to-hand battle with failure, head down in the rain, just trying to stay upright and have a little hope. The Tour isn't just a bike race, it tests you mentally, physically, and even morally. -Lance Armstrong. - 2000 SILVER AMERICAN EAGLE NGC MS69
LANCE ARMSTRONG SIGNATURE
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| 2001 Silver American Eagle MS69 PCGS |
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S$1 2001 EAGLE
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2001 SILVER AMERICAN EAGLE NGC MS69 LANCE ARMSTRONG SIGNATURE AMERICAN HERO'S SET
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| 2002 Silver American Eagle MS69 PCGS |
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[Cancer] put pain in perspective for me, it put suffering and defeat in perspective. The illness taught me how to really suffer and suffer slowly, and it's not as if you get sick and it hurts and a week later you get better. It's a long type of suffering, physical, emotional, mental, social. It gave me a certain sense of hunger and drive and determination that I was going to come back and give it my all.-Lance Armstrong. - Since joining the United States Mint team of sculptor-engravers in 1974, Mr. Mercanti has been involved in the creation of many memorable coins and medals. His achievements include the 1984 Olympic gold ten-dollar coin, 1986 Statue of Liberty dollar coin, 1989 Congress Bicentennial gold five-dollar coin, obverse of the 1990 Eisenhower Centennial silver dollar, obverse of the 1991 Mount Rushmore five-dollar coin, and obverse of the 1991 Korean War Memorial silver dollar. In 2004, Mr. Mercanti was sculpted-engraved the reverse of the Dr. Dorothy Height Congressional Gold Medal, produced in just nine days.
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| 2003 Silver American Eagle MS69 PCGS |
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S$1 2003 EAGLE
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What makes a great endurance athlete is the ability to absorb potenial embarrassment, and to suffer without complaint. I was discovering that if it was a matter of gritting my teeth, not caring how it looked, and outlasting everybody else, I won. It didn't seem to matter what sport it was--in a straight-ahead, long-distant race, I could beat anybody. If it was a suffer-fest, I was good at it.-Lance Armstrong. - When one first enters the U.S. Mint's lobby, there are many things to see. First, there is "Peter the Eagle." Peter is a stuffed American Bald Eagle who was a mascot of the U.S. Mint back in the 1830s. It was the first Bald Eagle held in captivity in America. He was the model for the eagle that was used on our coinage in the 1830s. Peter died as a result of an accident when he was hit by a flywheel that broke his wing.
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| 2004 Silver American Eagle MS69 PCGS |
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S$1 2004 EAGLE
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"I will cut right to the chase and say that after a lot of thought, considering the season and the races I was going to do this year, and having decided to focus on the Tour, at the same time I have decided that the Tour de France will be my last race as a professional cyclist. (Lance was visibly choked up as these words came out.) So July 24th will be the last one after more or less 14 years in the professional peloton, it will be the last one - win or lose. Having said that, I am fully committed to winning a 7th Tour.-Lance Armstrong. - 2004 SILVER AMERICAN EAGLE NGC MS69
LANCE ARMSTRONG SIGNATURE AMERICAN HERO'S SET
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| 2005 Silver American Eagle MS69 PCGS |
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S$1 2005 EAGLE
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I believed in belief, for its own shining sake. To believe in the face of utter hopelessness, every article of evidence to the contrary, to ignore apparent catastrophe-what other choice was there? We do it every day, I realized. We are so much stronger than we imagine, and belief is one of the most valiant and long-lived human characteristics. To believe, when all along we humans know that nothing can cure the briefness of this life, that there is no remedy for our basic mortality, that is a form of bravery." "To continue believing in yourself, believing in the doctors, believing in the treatment, believing in whatever I chose to believe in, that was the most important thing, I decided. It had to be." "Without belief, we would be left with nothing but an overwhelming doom, every single day. And it will beat you. I didn't fully see, until the cancer, how we fight every day against the creeping negatives of the world, how we struggle daily against the slow lapping of cynicism. Dispiritedness and disappointment, these are the real perils of life, not some sudden illness or cataclysmic millennium doomsday. I knew now why people fear cancer: because it is a slow and inevitable death, it is the very definition of cynicism and loss of spirit... So, I believed.-Lance Armstrong. - 2005 SILVER AMERICAN EAGLE NGC MS69
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