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5 Dollars, United States, 1855
Object Details
- Description (Brief)
- One (1) 5 dollar coin
- United States, 1855
- Obverse Image: Left facing Liberty with hair tied in a bun and wearing a coronet. 13 stars around.
- Obverse Text: LIBERTY / 1855
- Reverse Image: Eagle with wings outstretched clutching arrows and branch in talons, shield over chest with vertical stripes on bottom part and horizontal stripes on top part.
- Reverse Text: UNITED STATES OF AMERICA / FIVE D.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Transfer: US Mint
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- Date made
- 1855
- ID Number
- 1985.0441.0504
- catalog number
- 1985.0441.0504
- accession number
- 1985.0441
- mint
- United States Mint
- designer
- Gobrecht, Christian
- Object Name
- Coin
- Physical Description
- gold (overall metal)
- 0 (overall die axis)
- 0 (overall die axis measurement)
- struck (overall production method)
- Measurements
- overall: 1.5 mm x 21.8 mm; 1/16 in x 27/32 in
- place made
- United States
- place of issue
- United States
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- Work and Industry: National Numismatic Collection
- Record ID
- nmah_1079262
- Usage
- CC0
