20 Dollars, Pattern, United States, 1879
date: label: date made
content: 1879
notes: label: Description
content: United States Mint, Philadelphia. Obverse: Liberty head left, date below, weight and fineness around. Reverse: Eagle as on normal twenty-dollar coin, but Latin motto DEO EST GLORIA in place of IN GOD WE TRUST. This pattern came from the same impetus that led to the creation of the four-dollar gold coin, or Stella. The aim was to give American coinage a greater competitiveness and convertibility in international markets. Nine of these pieces are accounted for in gold including this one. [reference no. Judd 1643]
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Place Made
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: Harvey G. and Lawrence R. Stack
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1994.0371.0001
label: accession number
content: 1994.0371
label: catalog number
content: 1994.0371.0001
objectType: label: Object Name
content: coin
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: gold (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: .2 cm x 3.4 cm; 3/32 in x 1 11/32 in