Liberia 2010 Presidential Series Silver Plated Coin - 014th President Franklin Pierce

Embossed color portrait of President Franklin Pierce with a map of the Gadsden Purchase (taken from a U.S. postage stamp) in the background. The Gadsden Purchase is a 29,670-square-mile region of present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico that was purchased by the United States from Mexico in a treaty signed by President Franklin Pierce on June 24, 1853; this was the last major territorial acquisition in the contiguous United States. The coin comes in a clear protective capsule. The Gadsden Purchase (known as Venta de La Mesilla, or "Sale of La Mesilla", in Mexico[2]) is a 29,670-square-mile (76,800 km2) region of present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico that was purchased by the United States in a treaty signed by President Franklin Pierce on June 24, 1853, and ratified by the U.S. Senate on April 25, 1854. The purchase was the last major territorial acquisition in the contiguous United States.