Object Details
- Description (Brief)
- One (1) 20 dollar coin, proof
- United States, 1869
- Obverse Image: Liberty wearing a coronet and facing left. 13 stars around.
- Obverse Text: LIBERTY / 1869
- 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. / IN GOD WE TRUST / E PLURIBUS UNUM
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- designer
- Longacre, James Barton
- maker
- United States Mint
- Date made
- 1869
- Physical Description
- gold (overall metal)
- 0 (overall die axis)
- 0 (overall die axis measurement)
- struck (overall production method)
- Measurements
- overall: 2.3 mm x 34.1 mm; 3/32 in x 1 11/32 in
- Object Name
- Coin
