20 Dollars, United States, 1907
date: label: date made
content: 1907
name: label: mint
content: United States Mint
label: designer
content: Saint-Gaudens, Augustus
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: One (1) 20 dollar coin
label: Description (Brief)
content: United States, 1907
label: Description (Brief)
content: Obverse Image: Full-length Liberty holding a torch in her right hand and olive branch in left. Capitol Dome in lower left; rays of sun in background; stars around rim.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Obverse Text: LIBERTY / MCMVII
label: Description (Brief)
content: Reverse Image: Eagle flying through rays of sun.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Reverse Text: UNITED STATES OF AMERICA / TWENTY DOLLARS
label: Description (Brief)
content: Edge: E PLURIBUS UNUM divided by stars.
label: Description (Brief)
content: General Information: High relief, St. Gaudens coin with wire edge.
label: Description
content: This design, inspired by the Ultra High Relief masterpiece of August Saint-Gaudens, was created by his assistant upon Saint-Gaudens's death in August, 1907. The original coin took at least nine blows to form the relief- this was completely impractical for a mass-produced coinage. Lowering the relief reduced the number of blows needed to create each coin to five. But the need to expediently pump coins into circulation won out over the attention to detail required to produce each high relief coin. This version enjoyed only a brief run, and only about eleven thousand were ever struck.
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
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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.68.159.0377
label: accession number
content: 283645
label: catalog number
content: 68.159.0377
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: .35 cm x 3.45 cm; 1/8 in x 1 11/32 in