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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.
At Roosevelt's direction, the Mint hired Saint-Gaudens to redesign the cent and the four gold pieces: the double eagle ($20), eagle ($10), half eagle ($5), and quarter eagle ($2.50). The Liberty Head design had been first struck for the eagle in 1838; [2] the last addition to the Liberty Head gold series was the double eagle, first struck for ...
Indian Head, laurel wreath, 1859 Indian Head, oak leaf wreath, copper nickel, 1860-1864 Indian Head, oak leaf wreath, bronze, 1864-1909 Lincoln Head, VDB, 1909 Lincoln Head, wheat reverse, 1909-1958 Lincoln Head, steel, 1943 Lincoln Head, Memorial reverse, (bronze) 1959-1982, (copper plated zinc) 1982-2008 Lincoln Head, Bicentennial,
Art historian Cornelius Vermeule deprecated the Indian princess design used by Longacre for the obverses of the Types 2 and 3 gold dollar, and for the three-dollar piece, "the 'princess' of the gold coins is a banknote engraver's [c] elegant version of folk art of the 1850s. The plumes or feathers are more like the crest of the Prince of Wales ...
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Union (United States coin) United States Congress Bicentennial commemorative coins; United States half dollar mintage figures; United States quarter mintage figures; US Capitol Bicentennial silver dollar; USO 50th Anniversary silver dollar
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Indian Head (Large Size) 1854–1889 Small Indian Head 1854–1856; Large Indian Head 1856–1889; Copper-nickel clad dollar coins. Eisenhower dollar 1971–1974, 1977–1978 Eisenhower Bicentennial 1975–1976 (all dated 1976) Susan B. Anthony dollar 1979–1981, 1999; Manganese brass "golden" dollar coins. Sacagawea dollar (eagle reverse ...