USA, LEWIS & CLARK, Bicentennial Silver dollar.

Cataloge nr : KM363
Quality : Proof
Year : 2004

1 dollar 90% silver proof(P), diam: 38,1 mm, weight: 26,73 gr.
Mintage: 500.000 coins
In August 1803, with the completion of the Louisiana Purchase – a historic land deal that nearly doubled the size of the Nation – the United States began its journey west. Two men, Captains Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, led a team of nearly three dozen men and Sacagawea, a young Shoshone woman, and her infant son on a trek of nearly 8,000 miles. They braved injury, sickness and danger at every turn, not only to establish relations with numerous American Indian tribes, but also to enrich the scientific community with maps of the new territory and collections of plant and animal specimens previously unknown to the world at large. The "Corps of Volunteers of Northwestern Discovery," as it was originally known, is still regarded by many as one of the most successful military expeditions in American history. In the two years they took to chart America’s western horizon, the explorers lost only one man – Sgt. Floyd, to appendicitis.