10 Dollars, United States, 1861
date: label: Date made
content: 1861
name: label: maker
content: United States Mint
label: designer
content: Gobrecht, Christian
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: One (1) 10 dollar coin
label: Description (Brief)
content: United States, 1861
label: Description (Brief)
content: Obverse Image: Left facing Liberty with hair tied in a bun and wearing a coronet. 13 stars around.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Obverse Text: LIBERTY / 1861
label: Description (Brief)
content: Reverse Image: Eagle with wings outstretched clutching arrows and branch in talons, shield over chest.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Reverse Text: UNITED STATES OF AMERICA / TEN D.
label: Description
content: This coin is a typical eagle, or ten-dollar gold piece, struck at the main branch of the United States Mint in Philadelphia. The designs, the creation of Christian Gobrecht in the late 1830s, may not have inspired. But everyone knew that this was how gold coins were supposed to look and any design variations would encounter a gimlet eye from a suspicious public.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
label: place of issue
content: United States
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: National Numismatic Collection
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content: Josiah K. Lilly Jr. Collection
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Estate of Josiah K. Lilly
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: NU.68.159.0837
label: accession number
content: 283645
label: catalog number
content: 68.159.0837
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)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1.9 mm x 27.2 mm; 1/16 in x 1 1/16 in