5 Cents, United States, 1913
date: label: Date made
content: 1913
name: label: mint
content: United States Mint
label: designer
content: Fraser, James Earle
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: One (1) 5 cent coin
label: Description (Brief)
content: United States, 1913
label: Description (Brief)
content: Obverse Image: Right-facing profile of a Native American man.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Obverse Text: LIBERTY / 1913
label: Description (Brief)
content: Reverse Image: American bison.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Reverse Text: UNITED STATES OF AMERICA / E PLURIBUS UNUM / FIVE CENTS
label: Description
content: New designs were called for to replace the Barber Liberty nickel that had gone stale after being in circulation since 1883. American artist and sculptor James Earle Fraser, who had assisted Augustus Saint-Gaudens on the Sherman Victory Memorial, designed this most beautiful circulating minor coin. Fraser had the opportunity to study and photograph three American Indians when they stopped in New York on their way to Washington to visit President Theodore Roosevelt. The resulting portrait was a composite of Iron Tail, Big Tree, and Two Moons. For his reverse, Fraiser visited a buffalo named Black Diamond, a resident of New York's Bronx Zoo.
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: Chase Manhattan
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1979.1263.00837
label: catalog number
content: 1979.1263.00837
label: accession number
content: 1979.1263
label: catalog number
content: 01445
objectType: label: Object Name
content: coin
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: copper - nickel (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:;