• The American Legion’s centennial coins will go on sale at noon Eastern time March 14.
• To make a purchase or for more information about the centennial coins, go to www.legion.org/coin.
• The U.S. Mint will strike 50,000 $5 gold coins, 400,000 silver dollar coins and 750,000 half-dollar coins.
• To produce the silver dollar, each pure silver blank coin is struck three times by the Mint’s coinage dies, with a pressure of roughly 190 tons per strike.
• More than one-third (about 36 percent) of the U.S. Mint’s 1,700 employees are military veterans.
