5 Cents, United States, 1938
date: label: date made
content: 1938
name: label: mint
content: U.S. Mint, San Francisco
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: One (1) 5 cent coin
label: Description (Brief)
content: United States, 1938
label: Description (Brief)
content: Obverse Image: Left facing bust of Thomas Jefferson.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Obverse Text: IN GOD WE TRUST / LIBERTY / 1938
label: Description (Brief)
content: Reverse Image: Monticello.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Reverse Text: E PLURIBUS UNUM / MONTICELLO / FIVE CENTS / UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
label: Description
content: It was deemed advisable to create a new nickel design towards the end of the 1930s. What came about in no way represented an improvement over its predecessor; but this is the design that has remained in effect since that time.
label: Description
content: The left-facing portrait of Jefferson is successful. The depiction of
label: Description
content: Jefferson's Monticello is far less so, although designer Felix Schlag had originally designed the building as seen from an angle rather than head-on.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: California, San Francisco
label: place of issue
content: United States
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: National Numismatic Collection
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Ellis H. Robison
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: NU.77.74.007
label: accession number
content: 1977.1186
label: catalog number
content: 77.74.007
objectType: label: Object Name
content: coin
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: nickel (overall metal)
label: Physical Description
content: 0 (overall die axis)
label: Physical Description
content: 0 (overall die axis measurement)
label: Physical Description
content: struck (overall production method)
label: Measurements
content: overall: .2 cm x 2.125 cm; 3/32 in x 27/32 in