Object Details
- Reid, Templeton
- Description (Brief)
- One (1) 10 dollar coin
- United States, 1830
- Obverse Image: Ring of stars.
- Obverse Text: GEORGIA GOLD
- Reverse Image: N/A
- Reverse Text: TEMPLETON REID ASSAYER / TEN DOLLARS
- Description
- Produced by Templeton Reid in Milledgeville or Gainesville, Georgia.
- Templeton Reid was a jack of all trades. In mid-1830, he gained immortality by becoming the first American since Ephraim Brasher to strike his own gold coins. Some of his ten-dollar pieces bear dates. Others, including this one, do not. Five dated pieces are known and only three undated ones.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Estate of Josiah K. Lilly
- 1830
- ID Number
- NU.68.159.1186
- accession number
- 283645
- catalog number
- 68.159.1186
- Object Name
- coin
- Physical Description
- gold (overall metal)
- 0 (overall die axis)
- 0 (overall die axis measurement)
- struck (overall production method)
- Measurements
- overall: 34 mm; 1 11/32 in
- place of issue
- United States: Georgia
- 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_1101181
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a9-8044-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
