Object Details
- mint
- U.S. Mint, Philadelphia
- Description (Brief)
- One (1) 10 dollar coin, pattern
- United States, 1874
- Obverse Image: Liberty portrait bust facing left, wearing laurel around her neck, date below.
- Obverse Text: UNITED STATES OF AMERICA / LIBERTY / 1874
- Reverse Image: Inscription about coin's weight and fineness in center, domestic denomination and foreign equivalents in surrounding cartouches.
- Reverse Text: 16.72 GRAMS / 900 FINE / UBIQUE. / DOLLARS 10 / STERLING £ 211 / MARKEN 41.99 / KRONEN 37.31 / GULDEN 20.73 / FRANCS 51.81
- Description
- United States Mint, Philadelphia. Obverse: Head of Liberty, date below. Reverse: Inscription about the coin's weight and metallic fineness in center, domestic denomination and foreign equivalents in surrounding cartouches. This pattern was part of the drive towards a coin with the potential for easy international acceptance.
- A dozen or so are known in copper, a few others in other metals. They are called Bickford patterns after Dana Bickford, who proposed the convertibility idea.
- [reference no. Judd 1375]
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- U.S. Department of the Treasury, U.S. Mint
- 1874
- ID Number
- 1985.0441.2016
- accession number
- 1985.0441
- catalog number
- 1985.0441.2016
- Object Name
- coin
- Physical Description
- bronze (overall metal)
- 0 (overall die axis)
- 0 (overall die axis measurement)
- struck (overall production method)
- Measurements
- overall: 35 mm; 1 3/8 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_1064384
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a9-0253-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
