1 Dollar - Elizabeth II Alexander Graham Bell

This dollar was issued to mark the 175th anniversary of Alexander Graham Bell's birth — he was born in Edinburgh in 1847, emigrated to Canada in 1870 following the deaths of his two brothers to tuberculosis, and became a Canadian citizen, a fact Americans who claim him as their own tend to overlook. Bell conducted his earliest telephone experiments while at his family's Brantford, Ontario property, Melville House, and he always credited Canada as the birthplace of the telephone despite the device's patent being filed in Washington.