Object Details
- Description (Brief)
- One (1) 5 dollar coin
- United States, 1819
- Obverse Image: Left-facing Liberty head with flowing hair wearing cap, 13 stars along coin edge.
- Obverse Text: LIBERTY / 1819
- Reverse Image: Eagle with wings outstretched clutching branch and arrows in talons, shield over chest with vertical stripes on bottom part and horizontal stripes on top part, ribbon over eagle's head.
- Reverse Text: UNITED STATES OF AMERICA / E PLURIBUS UNUM / 5 D.
- General Information: 5 D stamped over 50.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- mint
- United States Mint
- designer
- Reich, John
- Date made
- 1819
- Credit Line
- Estate of Josiah K. Lilly
- Physical Description
- gold (overall metal)
- 0 (overall die axis)
- 0 (overall die axis measurement)
- struck (overall production method)
- Measurements
- overall: .1 cm x 2.5 cm; 1/32 in x 31/32 in
- Object Name
- Coin
