American Heroes Lance Armstrong Signature Set
2003 Silver American Eagle MS69 PCGS

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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.