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1 dollar. 14th US President. Franklin Pierce. 2010

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Depth 2
Weight 8,1
Diameter (mm) 26,5
Mintage 76580
Material a manganese-copper plated brass
Edge of the coin (milling) with an inscription
Series Presidents
Country USA
Release date 2010
Quality UNC

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1 dollar. 14th US President. Franklin Pierce. 2010

Avers: portrait of President Franklin Pierce. Above the portrait, Kant coin - the inscription: "FRANKLIN PIERCE" (Franklin Pierce), at the bottom of one line of the inscription: "IN GOD WE TRUST" (In God We Trust) "14th PRESIDENT" (fourteenth president), and during his tenure as president, "1853-1857."

Reverse: the image of the Statue of Liberty, the sculptor of which is Don Everhart, the inscription along the rim - «United States of America», denomination of the coin - 1 $.

Edge: 2010 mint mark (P or D) • E PLURIBUS UNUM • IN GOD WE TRUST

Because the image of the statue of liberty is already present on the label '' In God We Trust '' ( '' We believe in God, '' Eng.) And '' E Pluribus Unum '' ( '' in a variety of Unity ', the Latin.) - the motto of the country, it was decided to abandon. Reverse all the coins in this series is the same. All presidential coin series are legal tender.

Franklin Pierce (1804 - 1869) - 14 th in a row, US President. His father was the governor of the State of New Hampshire, and the young Pierce in the 25 years was in the state parliament, was then a member of Congress, and later - the Senate. He fought in the Civil War, on his return studied the United Democrats, won the presidential election, becoming head of state in 1853.

Life of Franklin Pierce could not serve as an example of well-being: he differed addiction to alcohol, his wife suffered from depression and tuberculosis, the main part of the presidential term spent in seclusion. The two young sons died of disease, and the third was killed in a railway accident on the eve of the inauguration - it prompted Pierce when he took office in place of the Bible to lay his hand on the body of laws.

the new president of the acute problem of slavery became the disagreements between the North and the South, the relationship with the Indian population, the construction of railways, the UK presence in Central America. The President supported the fraction of slaveholders, "Compromise 1829" was almost abolished by law in 1854 "Kansas-Nebraska".

Pierce said that he sees no evil in the American expansion and implement policies that gave rise to many problems. It does not become a successful attempt to annex Cuba. The unprecedented bombardment of the British colony of Greytown, support adventurer Kinney, who created a puppet government in Nicaragua, buy "Gadsden" "- a narrow strip of land and poor in Mexico - not contributing to the popularity of the president.

Ceased its activities in 1857, Pierce left unsolved problems and aggravated relations between North and South. Himself the 14th president was disappointed and bitter. Life Balance drinking heavily and died of cirrhosis in 1869.

Release Date: May 20, 2010

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