Object Details
- mint
- U.S. Mint, Philadelphia
- designer
- Scot, Robert
- Description (Brief)
- One (1) 10 dollar coin
- United States, 1803
- Obverse Image: Liberty wearing a cap, facing right. 13 stars around.
- Obverse Text: LIBERTY / 1803
- Reverse Image: Heraldic eagle with wings outstretched clutching arrows and branch in talons, shield over chest with vertical stripes on bottom part and horizontal stripes on top part, ribbon held in beak, 13 stars above eagle's head, 6 cloud-like shapes above stars.
- Reverse Text: UNITED STATES OF AMERICA / E PLURIBUS UNUM
- Description
- This was designed by Robert Scot. Nearly nine thousand of these coins (whose reverse bears small stars rather than large ones) were coined during the second half of the year 1803. This coin may be the most perfectly preserved of them all.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Estate of Josiah K. Lilly
- 1803
- ID Number
- NU.68.159.0271
- accession number
- 283645
- catalog number
- 68.159.0271
- Object Name
- coin
- Physical Description
- gold (overall material)
- 0 (overall die axis)
- 0 (overall die axis measurement)
- struck (overall production method)
- Measurements
- overall: 32.4 mm; 1 9/32 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
- Josiah K. Lilly Jr. Collection
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_1075512
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ab-3eb5-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
