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50 Dollars JFK - To A New Generation
| 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 lettering | REPUBLIC OF THE MARSHALL ISLANDS $50 1995 SEAL JEPILPILIN KE EJUKAAN |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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The Marshall Islands gained authority to issue its own coinage under the Compact of Free Association with the United States, signed in 1986. The arrangement gave the islands legal self-governance while the U.S. retained defense responsibility — an unusual sovereignty arrangement that also produced an unusual coinage program, heavily oriented toward commemorative issues sold directly to collectors rather than circulated currency.
This piece draws on Kennedy's January 1961 inaugural address, one of the most quoted in American political history. The "new generation" phrase was Kennedy's own framing of a generational transfer of power, written largely by Ted Sorensen.