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Type I, Covered Ear, No Motto
Designer: Christian Gobrecht. Diameter: 26.8mm Composition: 90% gold, 10% copper. Weight: 16.718 grams. Edge: Reeded.
Minted: 1838-1839 Total Circulation Minted: 45,448. Total Proofs Minted: 8 estimated.
Obverse: Liberty. Reverse: Heraldic Eagle.
After a thirty-four year hiatus on minting Eagles, Mint Director Robert Maskell Patterson resumed production after orders were given by the Secretary of the Treasury. At the time, Congress
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