10 Dollars, United States, 1933
10 Dollars, United States, 1933
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- Description (Brief)
- One (1) 10 dollar coin
- United States, 1933
- Obverse Image: Left-facing Liberty wearing a feather headdress, 13 stars along top edge of coin.
- Obverse Text: LIBERTY / 1933
- Reverse Image: Eagle with wings folded standing on bundle of arrows and branch.
- Reverse Text: UNITED STATES OF AMERICA / E PLURIBUS UNUM / IN GOD WE TRUST / TEN DOLLARS
- General Information: A departure from older standards is found on the edge of the piece, where 48 raised stars are arranged signifying the states of the Union, instead of there being a lettered or reeded edge. A few dozen of these coins were released into circulation at the beginning of 1933. Only a handful remain today, the rest being melted.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- coin
- Date made
- 1933
- mint
- U.S. Mint. Philadelphia
- designer
- Saint-Gaudens, Augustus
- place of issue
- United States
- Physical Description
- gold (overall metal)
- 0 (overall die axis)
- 0 (overall die axis measurement)
- struck (overall production method)
- Measurements
- overall: 27 mm; 1 1/16 in
- ID Number
- NU.68.159.0334
- accession number
- 283645
- catalog number
- 68.159.0334
- Credit Line
- Estate of Josiah K. Lilly
- See more items in
- Work and Industry: National Numismatic Collection
- Coins, Currency and Medals
- Josiah K. Lilly Jr. Collection
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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