United States
10 Dollars "Liberty Cap" · “Liberty Cap”
United States · 1795–1804 · Gold
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The Liberty Cap Eagle: America's First Gold Coin
In 1795 the young United States struck its first gold coin: a $10 eagle worth more than most Americans earned in a month. Then it watched almost all of them disappear — shipped overseas, melted for bullion, gone. By 1804 the government simply stopped making them.
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