Object Details
- Description (Brief)
- One (1) 3 dollar coin
- United States, 1856
- Obverse Image: Left-facing Liberty head wearing feather headdress.
- Obverse Text: UNITED STATES OF AMERICA / LIBERTY
- Reverse Image: Wreath made of wheat, corn, cotton, and tobacco.
- Reverse Text: 3 DOLLARS / 1856 / S
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- mint
- U.S. Mint, San Francisco
- designer
- Longacre, James Barton
- Date made
- 1856
- 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 mm x 20.6 mm; 1/32 in x 13/16 in
- Object Name
- coin
