Object Details
- designer
- Saint-Gaudens, Augustus
- mint
- U.S. Mint, Philadelphia
- Description (Brief)
- One (1) 20 dollar coin, ultra high relief pattern
- United States, 1907
- Obverse Image: Full-length Liberty holding a torch in her right hand and olive branch in left. Capitol Dome in lower left; rays of sun in background; stars around rim.
- Obverse Text: LIBERTY / MCMVII
- Reverse Image: Eagle flying through rays of sun.
- Reverse Text: UNITED STATES OF AMERICA / TWENTY DOLLARS
- Edge: E PLURIBUS UNUM divided by stars.
- Description
- Less than two dozen of these coins were struck. This kind of relief was never intended for a circulating coin, because it took nearly a dozen passes through the press to achieve. We should instead see these marvelous coins as testimony to the human spirit and to human curiosity: just how much relief could you obtain, and how long would it take to create it?
- This ultra high relief twenty has pedigree as well as beauty in its favor. Presdient Theodore Roosevelt gave it to his daughter as a Christmas present in 1907. Augustus Saint-Gaudens had presented it to the president, and it may have been the first piece struck. Roosevelt's daughter donated this coin to the Smithsonian in 1961.
- [reference no. Judd 1778]
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Mrs. Richard Derby
- 1907
- ID Number
- NU.NU71628
- catalog number
- NU71628
- accession number
- 236191
- Object Name
- coin
- Physical Description
- gold (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: .4 cm x 3.42 cm; 5/32 in x 1 11/32 in
- place made
- United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
- city
- United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
- province
- United States: Pennsylvania
- 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
- National Treasures exhibit
- Coins, Currency and Medals
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_835313
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ab-b578-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
