Object Details
- mint
- U.S. Mint, Philadelphia
- designer
- Saint-Gaudens, Augustus
- Description (Brief)
- One (1) 10 dollar coin
- United States, 1907
- Obverse Image: Left-facing Liberty wearing a feather headdress, 13 stars along top edge of coin.
- Obverse Text: LIBERTY / 1907
- Reverse Image: Eagle with wings folded standing on top of a bundle of arrows and branch.
- Reverse Text: UNITED STATES OF AMERICA / E PLURIBUS UNUM / TEN DOLLARS
- Description
- Charles Barber retouched Augustus Saint-Gaudens's designs after the latter died in mid-1907. Barber had the good sense to leave well enough alone--in the case of the ten dollar piece. What we have here is a relatively common coin (nearly a quarter-million were struck at the end of 1907), in a distinctly uncommon state of preservation. This coin has essentially remained untouched for nearly a century.
- Against President Theodore Roosevelt's objections, the motto IN GOD WE TRUST was added to the reverse in mid-1908. Thus amended, eagles with these designs were produced through early 1933.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- F. A. Hauck
- 1907
- ID Number
- NU.NU85754.02
- accession number
- 255927
- catalog number
- NU85754.02
- Object Name
- coin
- Physical Description
- gold (overall material)
- 0 (overall die axis)
- 0 (overall die axis measurement)
- struck (overall production method)
- Measurements
- overall: .2 cm x 2.72 cm; 3/32 in x 1 1/16 in
- place of issue
- United States
- Related Publication
- Glossary of Coins and Currency Terms
- Related Web Publication
- http://americanhistory.si.edu/coins/glossary.cfm
- See more items in
- Work and Industry: National Numismatic Collection
- Coins, Currency and Medals
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_1088223
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ab-b577-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
