Uploaded July 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
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From 1839 through 1907, the $5 Liberty Gold Half Eagle was legal tender. The Liberty Half Eagle has a substantially higher gold content than other circulating coins because its mintage period was before 1933.
The Liberty Half Eagle, like other $5 Half Eagles, depicts a bald eagle holding a pair of arrows in its talons while supporting an olive branch. But the eagle on the Liberty Half Eagle has been depicted in great clarity. The national bird is presented in a realistic manner and details like the complex texture of its feet and feathers. A scroll over the eagle's head has the coin's denomination written out.
Christian Gobrecht made the decision to reinterpret earlier Lady Liberty pictures in a neoclassical style. Liberty is shown in profile in Gobrecht's artwork, her ornately styled hair adorned with an engraved tiara. Her appearance, including her hairstyle, was based on early Greco-Roman depictions of goddesses and ladies. In addition to the coin's mintage year, his design features a ring of thirteen stars around the coin's edge.
Due to the Liberty Half Eagle's simultaneous production at all seven US mints and its distinctive mint markings, it has become a collectors' favorite.
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From 1839 through 1907, the $5 Liberty Gold Half Eagle was legal tender. The Liberty Half Eagle has a substantially higher gold content than other circulating coins because its mintage period was before 1933.
The Liberty Half Eagle, like other $5 Half Eagles, depicts a bald eagle holding a pair of arrows in its talons while supporting an olive branch. But the eagle on the Liberty Half Eagle has been depicted in great clarity. The national bird is presented in a realistic manner and details like the complex texture of its feet and feathers. A scroll over the eagle's head has the coin's denomination written out.
Christian Gobrecht made the decision to reinterpret earlier Lady Liberty pictures in a neoclassical style. Liberty is shown in profile in Gobrecht's artwork, her ornately styled hair adorned with an engraved tiara. Her appearance, including her hairstyle, was based on early Greco-Roman depictions of goddesses and ladies. In addition to the coin's mintage year, his design features a ring of thirteen stars around the coin's edge.
Due to the Liberty Half Eagle's simultaneous production at all seven US mints and its distinctive mint markings, it has become a collectors' favorite.
