Object Details
- Description (Brief)
- One (1) 5 dollar coin
- United States, 1881
- Obverse Image: Left facing Liberty with hair tied in a bun and wearing a coronet. 13 stars around.
- Obverse Text: LIBERTY / 1881
- Reverse Image: Eagle with wings outstretched clutching arrows and branch in talons, shield over chest. Scroll above eagle.
- Reverse Text: UNITED STATES OF AMERICA / IN GOD WE TRUST / FIVE D.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- mint
- United States Mint
- designer
- Gobrecht, Christian
- Date made
- 1881
- 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: .2 cm x 2.1 cm; 3/32 in x 13/16 in
- Object Name
- Coin
