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Date acquired: 30 August 2004.
Mintage: 8,327,245.
PCGS Cert Number: 21378104.
In 1892......
- Ellis Island begins accepting immigrants to the United States
- Homer Plessy (1862-1925) refuses to board a segregated rail car, the incident that would lead to the Plessy v. Ferguson decision four years later
- Lizzie Borden's family is found murdered in their Massachusetts home; Lizzie (1860-1927) would be acquitted the following year
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) publishes The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
- William "Pudge" Heffelfinger (1867-1954) becomes the first professional football player for accepting $500 to play in a football game
- Births included: J. R. R. Tolkien (d. 1973), Francisco Franco (d. 1975), Gummo Marx (d. 1977), Edna St. Vincent Millay (d. 1950).
About This Coin: The hits on the cheek are the only real distractions on this coin, considerable but given the strong luster, attractive light peripheral toning and nearly mark-free fields, overall it's a very strong example of this type in this grade. The only wear evident is a very minor break in luster over the cheek. As the first year of issue, there is a little more pressure on this date from first-year type collectors, but it's also a fairly plentiful date in AU to mint state condition as many people saved "souvenirs" of the new coin in its first year of issue.
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