20 Dollars, United States, 1870
20 Dollars, United States, 1870
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- Description (Brief)
- One (1) 20 dollar coin
- United States, 1870
- Obverse Image: Liberty wearing a coronet and facing left. 13 stars around.
- Obverse Text: LIBERTY / 1870
- Reverse Image: Heraldic eagle with wings outstretched clutching arrows and branch in talons, shield over chest. Scrolls on either side of eagle, ring of 13 stars above eagle's head, rays of sun above stars.
- Reverse Text: UNITED STATES OF AMERICA / TWENTY D. / IN GOD WE TRUST / E PLURIBUS UNUM / CC
- Description
- The Carson City mint was the second western federal facility to come on line. It was never a major producer, and its operative life was brief, just 24 years.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- Coin
- date made
- 1870
- mint
- U.S. Mint, Carson City
- designer
- Longacre, James Barton
- place made
- United States
- place of issue
- United States
- Physical Description
- gold (overall metal)
- 0 (overall die axis)
- 0 (overall die axis measurement)
- struck (overall production method)
- ID Number
- NU.68.159.0352
- accession number
- 283645
- catalog number
- 68.159.0352
- Credit Line
- Estate of Josiah K. Lilly
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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