20 Dollars, Moffat & Co., United States, 1853
date: label: date made
content: 1853
name: label: maker
content: Moffat & Company
notes: label: Description
content: This twenty dollar gold coin was produced at Moffat & Company's mint in San Francisco, California around 1853. Moffat & Company was a major player in the production of California private gold coinage. First issuing its own coins, then coining the fifty dollar “slugs” for the United States Assay Office of assayer Augustus Humbert. This 1853 double eagle is one of the last coins struck by this prolific California pioneer coiner. Obverse and reverse designs bear a close and deliberate similarity to those used on the "official" double eagle of the same period produced by the U.S. Mint for regular circulating coins.
label: Description
content: Obverse: Liberty head, “Moffat & Co.” on crown, 13 stars around, dated 1853 below.
label: Description
content: Reverse: Liberty eagle with thirteen stars around its head, “San Francisco California/Tweny D.”
place: label: place made
content: United States: California
label: place of issue
content: United States: California
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content: Work and Industry: National Numismatic Collection
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content: American Enterprise
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content: Coins, Currency and Medals
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content: Josiah K. Lilly Jr. Collection
label: Exhibition
content: American Enterprise
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
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.68.159.1163
label: accession number
content: 283645
label: catalog number
content: 68.159.1163
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: .3 cm x 3.4 cm; 1/8 in x 1 11/32 in