1998-S $1 Crispus Attucks MS70 认证号45247734, PCGS号9769

Crispus Attucks (c.1723 – March 5, 1770) was an American whaler, sailor, and stevedore of African and Native American descent, commonly regarded as the first person killed in the Boston Massacre and thus the first American killed in the American Revolution. Historians disagree on whether Attucks was a free man or an escaped slave, but most agree that he was of Native American (specifically Wampanoag) and African descent. Two major sources of eyewitness testimony about the Boston Massacre published in 1770 did not refer to him as "black" nor as a "Negro"; it appears that Bostonians viewed him as being of mixed ethnicity. According to a contemporaneous account in the Pennsylvania Gazette, he was a "Mulattoe man, named Crispus Attucks, who was born in Framingham

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The 1998-S Crispus Attucks was struck to commemorate the 275th anniversary of the birth of Crispus Attacks and to honor the Black Revolutionary War Patriots who fought at war in the Boston Massacre of 1770.

Obverse: Features an image of Crispus Attacks. The obverse has the inscriptions, Liberty, In God We Trust, Crispus Attucks, 1723-1770 and 1998 or the year in which the coins were issued.

Reverse: Features an African American Patriot family design taken from a sculptor that was designed by Ed Dwight. The reverse has the inscriptions, United States of America, E Pluribus Unum and One Dollar.

Pre-IssuePrice: $30.00

Regular Issue Price: $32.00

Issue Date: February 13, 1998