Object Details
- Description (Brief)
- One (1) 10 dollar coin
- United States, 1803
- Obverse Image: Liberty wearing a cap, facing right. 13 stars around.
- Obverse Text: LIBERTY / 1803
- Reverse Image: Heraldic eagle with wings outstretched clutching arrows and branch in talons, shield over chest with vertical stripes on bottom part and horizontal stripes on top part, ribbon held in beak, 13 stars above eagle's head, 6 cloud-like shapes above stars.
- Reverse Text: UNITED STATES OF AMERICA / E PLURIBUS UNUM
- Description
- This was designed by Robert Scot. Nearly nine thousand of these coins (whose reverse bears small stars rather than large ones) were coined during the second half of the year 1803. This coin may be the most perfectly preserved of them all.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- mint
- U.S. Mint, Philadelphia
- designer
- Scot, Robert
- Date made
- 1803
- Credit Line
- Estate of Josiah K. Lilly
- Physical Description
- gold (overall material)
- 0 (overall die axis)
- 0 (overall die axis measurement)
- struck (overall production method)
- Measurements
- overall: 32.4 mm; 1 9/32 in
- Object Name
- coin
