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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
Classic Head large cent, 1808–1815 (Copper) Year ... 20 Proof 1850 (P) 4,426,844 (P) 8 Proof 1851 ... United States half dollar mintage figures.
The Seated Liberty design remained standard on all American coins ranging from half dimes to half dollars for decades, but by 1879 — the year after the Bland-Allison Act caused a drastic curtailment in the mintages of Seated Liberty half dollars, quarters, and even dimes until 1883, there was increased criticism and calls for its replacement ...
Half Eagle, a 1795 coin with a face value of two dollars; Coronet large cent, an 1816 coin with a face value of 0.01 dollars; Liberty Head double eagle, an 1850 coin with a face value of 20 dollars; Liberty Head nickel, an 1883 coin with a face value of 0.05 dollars; Standing Liberty quarter, a 1916 coin with a face value of 0.25 dollars
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The new quarter eagle also saw a reduction in diameter from 20 millimeters to 18.2 millimeters and a reduction in weight from 4.37 grams to 4.18 grams. The new issue was designed by William Kneass and minted in Philadelphia, Charlotte (1838–39), New Orleans (1839 only), and Dahlonega (1839 only).