It sounds like a modern U.S. presidential one dollar coin. 1881 is the year Garfield was President, though the coin itself was minted in 2011. It's worth one dollar.
However if it has the word "assassinated" on it, the item could be a memorial token rather than a coin. That word doesn't appear on any of the presidential dollars, only the date that each person served as president.
No, James Garfield was assassinated.
James Garfield was the president who worked to limit the spoils system and was later assassinated.
James Garfield was the president who worked to limit the spoils system and was later assassinated.
James Garfield
Yes, James A. Garfield was assassinated while he was in office.
No, James Garfield was. Abraham Lincoln was the first; James Garfield was the second; William McKinley was the third; and John F. Kennedy was the fourth.
The next U.S. President to be assassinated was James Garfield in 1881.
James Garfield
President James Garfield was assassinated by a rejected Federal office seeker
Presidents Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley, and Kennedy were assassinated while in office. None were assassinated -IN- the White House.
James A. Garfield, September, 1881
James Garfield was the man.