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50 Dollars JFK - Meet Any Hardship
| Issuer | Marshall Islands |
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| Year | 1995 |
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| Value | 50 Dollars 50 USD = RSD 5013 |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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The Marshall Islands began issuing legal tender commemorative coinage in 1986, leveraging its status as a sovereign nation in free association with the United States to produce coins primarily aimed at the collector market rather than circulation. The "Meet Any Hardship" inscription draws from Kennedy's 1961 inaugural address — specifically the pledge to "bear any burden, meet any hardship" — issued here on the 32nd anniversary of his assassination.
KM#278 is one of dozens of Marshall Islands commemoratives from this period, produced through outside minting contractors rather than any domestic facility.