20 Dollars "Metric Double Eagle / Quintuple Stella" , United States
1879
Obverse
Reverse
Coin Details
Obverse
Script:
Latin
Lettering:
✶30✶G✶1.5✶S✶3.5✶C✶35✶G✶R✶A✶M✶S✶ LIBERTY 1879
Engravers:
James Barton Longacre
Reverse
Script:
Latin
Lettering:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA DEO EST GLORIA E PLURIBUS UNUM TWENTY DOLLARS
Engravers:
James Barton Longacre
Specifications
- Weight35g
- Diameter34mm
- CompositionGold (.857) (Cu .100, Ag .043)
- Orientationcoin
- ShapeRound
- TechniqueMilled
- Value20 Dollars
Categories
Issuer Hierarchy
Year1879
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½ Dollar "Kennedy Half Dollar" (40% Silver)
Obverse: Profile of John Fitzgerald Kennedy facing left, Reverse: Modified presidential seal of the United States of America (A shield (with vertical stripes) on the chest of an American eagle, holding an olive branch on its right talon and a bundle of thirteen arrows on its left, with the words "E PLURIBUS UNUM" in the scroll held in the bird's beak, with a circle of stars surrounding the eagle
