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The Liberty Head double eagle or Coronet double eagle is an American twenty-dollar gold piece struck as a pattern coin in 1849, and for commerce from 1850 to 1907. It was designed by Mint of the United States Chief Engraver James B. Longacre .
For collectors, extinction can help push coin values up into the thousands and even millions of dollars. Hunting Rare Coins Worth Thousands? ... Liberty Head $20 (1850-1907): $385,000.
Face value Coin Obverse design Reverse design Composition Mintage Available Obverse Reverse $2.50 "CAL" Liberty quarter eagle: Standard Liberty Head quarter eagle obverse Standard Liberty Head quarter eagle reverse with "CAL." punched into the field 90% Au, 10% Cu: Uncirculated: 1,389 [1] 1848
The 1849 Liberty Head design by James B. Longacre The 1907 high relief double eagle designed by Augustus Saint-Gaudens. A double eagle is a gold coin of the United States with a denomination of $20. [1] (Its gold content of 0.9675 troy ounces [30.09 g] was worth $20 at the 1849 official price of $20.67/ozt.) The coins are 34 mm × 2 mm and are ...
Millions of double eagles, of both the Liberty Head and Saint-Gaudens designs, were repatriated for numismatic and investment purposes once it was legal to do so. [68] By way of example, the 1924 Saint-Gaudens double eagle was once thought to be rare although 4,323,500 were struck; when the Mint offered a list of coins available at face value ...
Standing Liberty quarter Below are the mintage figures for the United States quarter up to 1930, before the Washington quarter design was introduced. The following mint marks indicate which mint the coin was made at (parentheses indicate a lack of a mint mark):
The 1835 Classic Head $2.50 The Classic Head $2.50 gold coin is an American coin, also called a quarter eagle , minted from 1834 to 1839. [ 1 ] It features Liberty on the obverse and an eagle on the reverse.
The 1848 "Liberty Head" quarter eagle punch-marked "CAL" Also known as the "Coronet Head", the Liberty head was designed to match the styles of the other gold eagles the government was producing. The Liberty Head design was created by Christian Gobrecht and was produced successfully from 1840 to 1907, making it the most popular and longest of ...