xml/lby.00168.xml Icons of Liberty: United States Eagle

United States Eagle (1795)

United States Eagle (1795). Reproduced from Burton Hobson, Historic Gold Coins of the World, Doubleday, 1971, 113. This early coin was produced soon after the 1792 Act of Congress that established the United States coinage. An Eagle is equivalent to ten dollars.

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