The Effigy of King Charles III with an American flag and the words “Uncommon Valor Was a Common Virtue,” a reference to Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz’s famous 1945 quote regarding those who served on Iwo Jima
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UNCOMMON
VALOR
WAS A COMMON
VIRTUE
ONE DOLLAR · CHARLES III
DT
· COOK ISLANDS ·
SEMPER FIDELIS 1OZ .9999 AG
Reverse description
Joe Rosenthal’s famous photograph of six U.S. Marines raising the American flag atop Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima
