Product History

1838-1907

$10 LIBERTY HEAD HALF EAGLE

Due to a sharp rise in the price of gold, production of these coins was halted in 1804 before neing reintroduced in 1838.

1838

1839-1908

$5 LIBERTY HEAD HALF EAGLE

Christian Gobrecht's Coronet Liberty Head motif grew to be as familiar as the Pillar Dollar or Athenian Owl.

1839

1840-1907

$2.5 LIBERTY HEAD QUARTER EAGLE

First appearing on the $10 gold coin in 1838, it was adapted to the $5 gold coin in 1839 and the $2.50 in 1840.

1840

1849-1907

$20 LIBERTY HEAD DOUBLE EAGLE

James Marshall was inspecting a sawmill on a river when he found a gold nugget. This discovery sparked the $20 Liberty Head Double Eagle.

1849

1878-1921

MORGAN SILVER DOLLAR

Silver Dollars or "Cartwheels" are the largest silver coins that the United States ever issued for general circulation.

1878

1907-1933

$10 INDIAN HEAD EAGLE

Theodore Rooseve was first Governor of New York, then Vice President, and finally President after the assassination of William McKinley.

1907

1907-1933

$20 SAINT-GAUDENS DOUBLE EAGLE

As the U.S. entered the 20th century, Augustus Saint-Gaudens was widely recognized as the nation's preeminent sculptor.

1907

1908-1929

$2.50 INDIAN HEAD QUARTER EAGLE

The next logical step to President Theodore Roosevelt's "pet crime", his desire to improve our "atrociously hideous" coinage.

1908

1908-1929

$5 INDIAN HEAD HALF EAGLE

The Indian Head gold pieces or Pratt-Bigelow gold coins were two separate coin series, identical in design, a quarter eagle and a half eagle.

1908

1916-1947

WALKING LIBERTY HALF DOLLAR

The Walking Liberty half dollar is a silver 50-cent piece or half dollar coin that was designed by Adolph A. Weinman, a well-known sculptor and engraver.

1916

1921-1935

PEACE SILVER DOLLAR

The Indian Head gold pieces or Pratt-Bigelow gold coins were two separate coin series, identical in design, a quarter eagle and a half eagle.

1908

1916-1947

WALKING LIBERTY HALF DOLLAR

America's first coin to commemorate peace owes its existence to Farran Zerbe who proposed a coin commemorating the end of World War I.

1921

1948-1963

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN HALF DOLLAR

The final design work of John R. Sinnock, mint engraver, who also designed the Roosevelt Dime and the Sesquicentennial Half Dollar and $2.50 Gold Commemoratives.