Coins produced for the American Legion centennial will include $5 gold coins, silver dollar coins, and half-dollar coins.

The American Legion’s centennial coins went on sale Thursday.

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.