United States
1 Dollar "Small Indian Head" · “Small Indian Head”
United States · 1854–1856 · Gold
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The Gold Dollar the Mint Couldn't Strike
In 1854 the U.S. Mint gave its tiny gold dollar a new face: an Indian princess in a feathered headdress. It was meant to be an improvement. Instead the design defeated the presses, and the Mint scrapped it after barely two years — leaving behind one of the shortest-lived gold types in American history.
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