1 Disme, Pattern, United States, 1792
date: label: date made
content: 1792
name: label: mint
content: U.S. Mint, Philadelphia
notes: label: Description
content: United States Mint, Philadelphia. Obverse: Liberty head left, with unbound hair; date below. Reverse: Small eagle, DISME below. The term "disme" was the original choice of the name for a tenth of a dollar. It was probably pronounced "deem."
label: Description
content: Adam Eckfeldt created the obverse die. William Birch was likely responsible for the reverse die. Henry Voigt did the actual coining. This activity was taking place in a completed section of the new United States Mint. The workers were constructing the rest of the building!
label: Description
content: This piece is one of a dozen of these patterns known.
label: Description
content: [reference no. Judd 1792]
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
label: Exhibition
content: Value of Money
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
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: Transfer from the United States Mint
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1991.0357.0122
label: catalog number
content: 1991.0357.0122
label: accession number
content: 1991.0357
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: .1 cm x 2.7 cm; 1/32 in x 1 1/16 in