10 Dollars, United States, 1907
date: label: Date made
content: 1907
name: label: mint
content: United States Mint
label: designer
content: Saint-Gaudens, Augustus
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: One (1) 10 dollar coin
label: Description (Brief)
content: United States, 1907
label: Description (Brief)
content: Obverse Image: Left-facing Liberty wearing a feather headdress, 13 stars along top edge of coin.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Obverse Text: LIBERTY / 1907
label: Description (Brief)
content: Reverse Image: Eagle with wings folded standing on top of a bundle of arrows and branch.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Reverse Text: UNITED STATES OF AMERICA / E PLURIBUS UNUM / TEN DOLLARS
label: Description
content: Augustus Saint-Gaudens's eagle never enjoyed the same acclaim as his double eagle, perhaps because much of the design was recycled. Near death at the time he was designing this coin, Saint-Gaudens reached back to his own familiar portfolio of work to produce the obverse profile and the reverse eagle. Years earlier, when working on the Sherman Victory monument in Central Park, New York City, he had created a model that had gone unused. Reused for this coin, Liberty's portrait was modified to include a feather headdress instead of the original olive branch. On the reverse of the coin, the eagle strongly resembles the bird Saint-Gaudens had designed for the Presidential inaugural medal for Theodore Roosevelt back in 1905. Even so, the new coin represented a major artistic advance. Nearly 250,000 were struck for circulation in the first year of production, 1907.
label: Description
content: While it is commonly called an “Indian Head” eagle, the portrait on this coin is the goddess Liberty, wearing a plains-style feathered warbonnet. Designer Augustus Saint-Gaudens’ originally intended the goddess to wear a victory wreath, but President Theodore Roosevelt considered the warbonnet to be more American, and Saint-Gaudens acquiesced.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States
label: place of issue
content: United States
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content: Work and Industry: National Numismatic Collection
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content: Coins, Currency and Medals
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: F. A. Hauck
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: NU.NU85753.01
label: accession number
content: 255927
label: catalog number
content: NU85753.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: coin
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: gold (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)
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