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10 Dollars "Eagle" · “Eagle”
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The story
The $10 Gold Eagle
In 1907, a sculptor dying of cancer and a president who hated dull money put a Native American war bonnet on Liberty's head and struck it in gold. That coin was an Eagle — the $10 piece that had already carried American gold for seventy years and would carry it again, reborn, into the modern bullion age.
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