Object Details
- Description (Brief)
- One (1) 20 dollar coin
- United States, 1855
- Obverse Image: Liberty wearing a coronet and facing left. 13 stars around.
- Obverse Text: LIBERTY / 1855
- Reverse Image: Heraldic eagle with wings outstretched clutching arrows and branch in talons, shield over chest. Scrolls on either side of eagle, ring of 13 stars above eagle's head, rays of sun above stars.
- Reverse Text: UNITED STATES OF AMERICA / TWENTY D. / E PLURIBUS UNUM / O
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- mint
- U.S. Mint, New Orleans
- designer
- Longacre, James Barton
- Date made
- 1855
- 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)
- Object Name
- Coin
