10 Dollars, Pattern, United States, 1874
date: label: Date made
content: 1874
name: label: mint
content: U.S. Mint, Philadelphia
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: One (1) 10 dollar coin, pattern
label: Description (Brief)
content: United States, 1874
label: Description (Brief)
content: Obverse Image: Liberty portrait bust facing left, wearing laurel around her neck, date below.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Obverse Text: UNITED STATES OF AMERICA / LIBERTY / 1874
label: Description (Brief)
content: Reverse Image: Inscription about coin's weight and fineness in center, domestic denomination and foreign equivalents in surrounding cartouches.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Reverse Text: 16.72 GRAMS / 900 FINE / UBIQUE. / DOLLARS 10 / STERLING £ 211 / MARKEN 41.99 / KRONEN 37.31 / GULDEN 20.73 / FRANCS 51.81
label: Description
content: United States Mint, Philadelphia. Obverse: Head of Liberty, date below. Reverse: Inscription about the coin's weight and metallic fineness in center, domestic denomination and foreign equivalents in surrounding cartouches. This pattern was part of the drive towards a coin with the potential for easy international acceptance.
label: Description
content: A dozen or so are known in copper, a few others in other metals. They are called Bickford patterns after Dana Bickford, who proposed the convertibility idea.
label: Description
content: [reference no. Judd 1375]
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: 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: Coins, Currency and Medals
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Glossary of Coins and Currency Terms
label: Related Web Publication
content: http://americanhistory.si.edu/coins/glossary.cfm
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: U.S. Department of the Treasury, U.S. Mint
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1985.0441.2016
label: accession number
content: 1985.0441
label: catalog number
content: 1985.0441.2016
objectType: label: Object Name
content: coin
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: bronze (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: 35 mm; 1 3/8 in