Object Details
- Description (Brief)
- One (1) 20 dollar coin
- United States, 1865
- Obverse Image: Liberty wearing a coronet and facing left. 13 stars around.
- Obverse Text: LIBERTY / 1865
- 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 above stars.
- Reverse Text: UNITED STATES OF AMERICA / TWENTY D. / E PLURIBUS UNUM / 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
- 1865
- 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: .3 cm x 3.4 cm; 1/8 in x 1 11/32 in
- Object Name
- Coin
