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5 Dollars To the Heroes of Vietnam War
| Issuer | Marshall Islands |
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| Year | 1995 |
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| Composition | Copper-nickel |
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| Reverse description | A dynamic battle scene commemorating the Vietnam War occupies the full field. In the upper portion, a military UH-1 Huey helicopter flies leftward above a densely rendered jungle landscape. Below, multiple infantry soldiers advance through difficult terrain, depicted in high relief with rifles raised in active combat positions. Two five-pointed stars flank the lower field. The legend TO • THE • HEROES • OF • THE • VIETNAM • WAR arcs along the upper rim, and the denomination FIVE DOLLARS is inscribed along the lower rim. |
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| Mint | Roger Williams Mint, Attleboro, Massachusetts, United States (?-2006) |
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| Additional information |
The Marshall Islands' commemorative dollar program of the 1990s was a frankly commercial operation — coins produced for the collector market with no genuine circulation role, issued by a nation whose own currency is the U.S. dollar. This piece appeared the same year as the fiftieth anniversary of the war's end in the Pacific, though the Vietnam commemorative angle had more to do with American collector demand than any particular Marshallese connection to that conflict.