2010-D Abraham Lincoln Presidential Dollar Coin - BU

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2010-D Abraham Lincoln Presidential Dollar Coin (UNC) - Brilliant Uncirculated
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PLEASE NOTE: The coin pictured is a facsimile and not the coin you will receive.  All coins are guaranteed to be Uncirculated and pulled directly from mint bags/tubes.
Composed of 88.5% Copper, 6% Zinc, 3.5% Manganese and 2% Nickel.
Released November 18th, 2010 (16th release of the series).
The obverse shows a portrait of the President's likeness, their name, the number in which president they were, and the years in which they served.
The reverse features a Statue of Liberty design done by Don Everhart of the United States Mint, along with the words "United States of America" and "."
These coins feature a lettered edge with the words "E Pluribus Unum," "In God We Trust," its year of mintage and its corresponding mint branch - (P) for Philadelphia or (D) for Denver.
Sovereign coin backed by the United States government with a face value of .00.
Abraham Lincoln, the 16th U.S. President, was born February 12, 1809, near Hodgenville, Ky., into a poor frontier family. A self-taught lawyer, he also served in the Illinois legislature and the U.S. House of Representatives. In 1858, while campaigning for a seat in the U.S. Senate, Lincoln engaged incumbent Stephen A. Douglas in a series of debates over slavery. Though he lost the election, Lincoln’s eloquence won him national attention, and in 1860, he received the Republican Presidential nomination. Lincoln became President of the United States in 1861 as the Nation descended into the Civil War.
While he was President, Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which freed the slaves living in the Confederacy. Although the Confederate States ignored the proclamation, it allowed Union soldiers to free slaves they found in the South and recruit them into their army. By the time the Civil War ended, one out of eight members of the Union Army was black. On November 19, 1863, he delivered his famous Gettysburg Address. His example of assuming sole authority during a time of war was followed by later Presidents, including Woodrow Wilson in World War I and Franklin Roosevelt in World War II. While the Civil War and efforts to abolish slavery dominated his presidency, Lincoln also signed into law the Homestead Act, which made it possible for poor people to buy land provided they agreed to settle and work there for at least five years. This law began the settlement of the American West.
On April 14, 1865—only a few weeks into his second administration and just as the Civil War was ending—Lincoln was shot by Southern sympathizer John Wilkes Booth, and died the next morning in Washington, D.C.
Abraham Lincoln was one of the most important and famous Presidents in American history. Known for his wise-words among many other things, here are a few quotes of his you may or may not have heard:
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves"
"Avoid popularity if you would have peace"
"Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets"
"Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them"
All coins ship in protective plastic. Larger orders may ship in tubes.