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Civil War Battlefield Silver Dollar

Commemorative Coins
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1995 Civil War Battlefield Silver Proof Obverse 1995 Civil War Battlefield Silver Proof Obverse
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1995 Civil War Battlefield Silver Proof Reverse 1995 Civil War Battlefield Silver Proof Reverse
Year of Issue

1995

Authorizing Legislation

Public Law 102-379

Background

Released on March 31, 1995, this coin was authorized in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the beginning of the protection of Civil War battlefields.

Recipient Organization

Sales included a surcharge of $35 per coin for the five dollar coins, $7 per coin for the one dollar coins, and $2 per coin for the half dollar coins paid to the Civil War Battlefield Foundation for the preservation of historically significant Civil War battlefields. 

Characteristics

The obverse design of the coin features an infantryman raising a canteen to the lips of a wounded foe.

The reverse of the coin features a quotation from Joshua Chamberlain, the college teacher from Maine who became one of the heroes of Gettysburg.

Obverse Inscriptions

  • LIBERTY
  • IN GOD WE TRUST
  • 1995

Reverse Inscriptions

  • UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
  • E PLURIBUS UNUM
  • ONE DOLLAR
  • IN GREAT DEEDS SOMETHING ABIDES ON GREAT FIELDS SOMETHING STAYS, FORMS CHANGE AND PASS BODIES DISAPPEAR: BUT SPIRITS LINGER TO CONSECRATE GROUND FOR THE VISION PLACE OF SOULS. - JOSHUA CHAMBERLAIN.

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