50 Dollars, Pattern, United States, 1877
date: label: Date made
content: 1877
name: label: obverse designer
content: Barber, William
label: reverse designer
content: Barber, William
label: mint
content: U.S. Mint, Philadelphia
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: One (1) 50 dollar coin, pattern
label: Description (Brief)
content: United States, 1877
label: Description (Brief)
content: Obverse Image: Left-facing Liberty wearing a coronet. 13 stars.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Obversre Text: LIBERTY / 1877
label: Description (Brief)
content: Reverse Image: A modified heraldic eagle with a shield over chest, holding a double scroll, clutching arrows and branch. Rays and stars above eagle.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Reverse Text: UNITED STATES OF AMERICA / FIFTY DOLLARS / IN GOD WE TRUST / E PLURIBUS UNUM
label: Description
content: William Barber, father of famed U.S. Mint designer Charles E. Barber, was the designer here. Perhaps ten copper patterns from this combination of dies including this specimen are known.
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: 1985.0441.2017
label: catalog number
content: 1985.0441.2017
label: accession number
content: 1985.0441
objectType: label: Object Name
content: coin
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: copper (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: 51 mm; 2 in