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Official set of series "Russian Federation". Issue 11
Official set of series "Russian Federation". Issue 11
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Depth | 2 |
Weight | 8,1 |
Diameter (mm) | 26,5 |
Mintage | 72660 |
Material | a manganese-copper plated brass |
Edge of the coin (milling) | with an inscription |
Series | Presidents |
Country | USA |
Release date | 2011 |
Quality | UNC |
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1 dollar. 17th US President. Andrew Johnson. 2011
Avers: portrait of President Andrew Johnson. Above the portrait, Kant coin - the inscription: "ANDREW JOHNSON" (Andrew Johnson), the bottom of the one-line inscription: "IN GOD WE TRUST" (In God We Trust) "17th PRESIDENT" (seventeenth president), and during his tenure as president, "1865-1869."
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: 2011 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.
Andrew Johnson (1808 - 1875) managed to become the 17th US President, without even primary education. The future politician was born into a poor family of North Carolina, he worked as an apprentice. Then went to Tennessee, married, engaged in tailoring business, his wife taught him to read and write, and he found a commercial vein, which helped confidence to stand up.
Political career began in 1829 with the membership of the City Council. Five years later Johnson became mayor of Greenville, then a senator in the Congress of the state. He was considered a staunch defender of slavery. During the Civil War he took the post of military governor of Tennessee.
In 1864, Johnson was elected vice president under Abraham Lincoln. In making an oath he was drunk and made an awkward speech extolling their origin from the people, but was forced to leave the ceremony at the insistence of the president. A month later, Lincoln was assassinated and Johnson, the procedure took over as US president.
Since taking office, the new president entered into a confrontation with Congress. To veto the bill of approval in the southern states of the Union, as well as approved by black civil equality, ordering take away their newly confiscated land. There were serious conflicts with the dismissal of the ministers and the non-recognition of layoffs in the Senate. These conflicts led to the beginning of procedure of impeachment - the only case until the episode with Bill Clinton. On the vote in the Senate for the President of the displacement had not enough of the required majority.
On the high office Johnson, a former master tailors Affairs, continued to sew a suit himself. In the new period did not begin to run and returned to Tennessee. One of the significant events of the Johnson presidency is to secure in 1867 the territory of Alaska from Russia.
Release Date: February 17, 2011