10 Dollars, Clark, Gruber & Co., United States, 1861
date: label: Date made
content: 1861
name: label: maker
content: Clark, Gruber & Co.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: One (1) 10 dollar coin
label: Description (Brief)
content: United States, 1861
label: Description (Brief)
content: Obverse Image: Liberty facing left, wearing a coronet. Stars around.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Obverse Text: 1861 / PIKES PEAK
label: Description (Brief)
content: Reverse Image: Heraldic eagle with shield clutching arrows and olive branch.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Reverse Text: CLARK GRUBER & CO / DENVER / TEN D.
label: Description
content: Perhaps in recognition of public mistrust of the Pike's Peak obverse design of 1860, the Denver coiners decided to play it safe on their subsequent issues. A head of Liberty replaced the offending mountain on their eagle coin of 1861. But Clark, Gruber still got in the last word: instead of saying LIBERTY, the goddess's coronet bore the words PIKE'S PEAK. Issues of 1861 appear to have survived in greater quantity than those of the previous year, although none of these coins is common.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Colorado
label: place of issue
content: United States: Colorado
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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: United States Mint
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1985.0441.2230
label: catalog number
content: 1985.0441.2230
label: accession number
content: 1985.0441
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: 27.5 mm; x 1 1/16 in