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The Coronet Head Half Eagle: a $5 gold coin that outlived a war, a gold rush, and seven mints

For nearly seven decades, this small gold piece was the workhorse of American wealth. It was struck at more U.S. mints than any other coin in history — and one of its dates is so scarce that the only example to surface in living memory was at first dismissed as a fake.