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The half eagle is a United States coin that was produced for circulation from 1795 to 1929 and in commemorative and bullion coins since 1983. Composed almost entirely of gold, its face value of five dollars is half that of the eagle coin.
A complete typeset (10 coins) of eight Half eagle gold $5 coins and two additional excessively rare major varieties from 1795 to 1929. The diameter of a Half eagle ranges from 25mm (roughly the size of a current issue U.S.quarter) to 21.6mm (roughly the size of a current issue U.S. nickel). Articles in which these images appear
$5 Half Eagle 21.6 mm 8.36 g 1795–1929 $10 American Gold Eagle 22 mm 7.78 g 1986–present $25 American Platinum Eagle 22 mm 7.78 g 1997–present Half Cent 23.5 mm 6.74 g 1795–1857 Two Cent 23 mm 6.22 g 1864-1873 Quarter (Clad) 24.26 mm 5.67 g 1965–present Quarter (40% Ag) 24.3 mm 5.75 g 1976(S) Quarter 24.3 mm 6.25 g 1796–1964 Dollar ...
These five main base-units of denomination were the mill, the cent, the dime, the dollar, and the eagle, where a cent is 10 mills, a dime is 10 cents, a dollar is 10 dimes, and an eagle is 10 dollars. The eagle base-unit of denomination served as the basis of the quarter eagle ($2.50), half eagle ($5), eagle ($10), and double eagle ($20) coins.
Quarter eagle: $2.50, 1792–1929 (some early commemoratives were minted in this denomination) Three-dollar piece: $3.00, 1854–1889; Stella: $4.00, 1879–1880 (not circulated) Half eagle: $5.00, 1795–1929 (some modern commemoratives are minted in this denomination)
The Indian Head gold pieces or Pratt-Bigelow gold coins were two separate coin series, identical in design, struck by the United States Mint: a two-and-a-half-dollar piece, or quarter eagle, and a five-dollar coin, or half eagle. The quarter eagle was struck from 1908 to 1915 and from 1925–1929.
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Of these, the $100,000 was printed only as a Series 1934 gold certificate and was only used for internal government transactions. The United States also issued fractional currency for a brief time in the 1860s and 1870s, in several denominations each less than a dollar.