5 Dollars, United States, 1822
Object Details
- Description (Brief)
- One (1) 5 dollar coin
- United States, 1822
- Obverse Image: A Capped Head Liberty facing left.
- Obverse Text: LIBERTY / 1822
- Reverse Image: Eagle with outstretched wings with 3 arrows and an olive branch in its talons. Scroll above the eagle's head.
- Reverse Text: UNITED STATES OF AMERICA / E PLURIBUS UNUM / 5 D.
- General Information: Although nearly 18,000 half eagles were struck in 1822, virtually all were melted down. As far as is known, only three specimens survive, two of them in the Smithsonian Institution.
- Credit Line
- Estate of Josiah K. Lilly
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- date made
- 1822
- ID Number
- NU.68.159.0190
- accession number
- 283645
- catalog number
- 68.159.0190
- mint
- U.S. Mint, Philadelphia
- designer
- Reich, John
- Object Name
- coin
- Physical Description
- gold (overall metal)
- 0 (overall die axis)
- 0 (overall die axis measurement)
- struck (overall production method)
- Measurements
- overall: .2 cm x 2.51 cm; 3/32 in x in
- place made
- United States
- place of issue
- United States
- Related Publication
- Feingold, Ellen R.. Value of Money, The
- See more items in
- Work and Industry: National Numismatic Collection
- Josiah K. Lilly Jr. Collection
- Exhibition
- Value of Money
- Exhibition Location
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_1076695
