20 Dollars, United States, 1852
date: label: date made
content: 1852
name: label: designer
content: Longacre, James Barton
label: mint
content: U.S. Mint, Philadelphia
label: maker
content: United States Mint
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: One (1) 20 dollar coin
label: Description (Brief)
content: United States, 1852
label: Description (Brief)
content: Obverse Image: Liberty wearing a coronet and facing left. 13 stars around.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Obverse Text: LIBERTY / 1852
label: Description (Brief)
content: Reverse Image: Heraldic eagle with wings outstretched clutching arrows and branch in talons, shield over chest. Scrolls on either side of eagle, ring of 13 stars above eagle's head, rays above stars.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Reverse Text: UNITED STATES OF AMERICA / TWENTY D. / E PLURIBUS UNUM
label: Description
content: Mintage: 2,053,026
label: Description
content: The mintage of double eagles continued in large numbers at the Philadelphia Mint in 1853. The date is one of the more common Type 1 double eagles. The treasure of the S.S. Central America contained nearly 30 coins of the date, and the S.S. Republic yielded nearly 100
label: Description
content: examples. Only about a dozen in those two groups are of Mint State quality.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
label: place of issue
content: United States
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content: Work and Industry: National Numismatic Collection
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content: United States Double Eagle
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content: Coins, Currency and Medals
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1984.1046.0426
label: accession number
content: 1984.1046
label: catalog number
content: 1984.1046.0426
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: 2.2 mm x 34 mm; 3/32 in x 1 11/32 in