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The United States Bicentennial coins are memorial renditions of the Washington quarter, Kennedy half dollar and Eisenhower dollar (imagined). They bear the twofold date 1776–1976, however some were struck in 1975 and also 1976. The US Mint had contradicted issuing memorial coins following the 1950s, however starting in 1971, individuals from Congress acquainted bills approving coins with honor the Bicentennial. New enactment obliged the provisional upgrade of the opposite of the quarter, half dollar and dollar; an across the nation rivalry yielded outlines of a Colonial drummer for the quarter, Independence Hall for the half dollar, and the Liberty Bell superimposed against the moon for the dollar.