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Lot 1189 - 1797 $10 Capped Bust. Large eagle PCGS MS61

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money Start Price:14,000.00 USD Estimated At:28,000.00 - 34,000.00 USD
Lot 1189 - 1797 $10 Capped Bust. Large eagle PCGS MS61
1797 $10 Capped Bust. Large eagle. The present piece will be highly appreciated by the die variety specialist as well as the type coin collector. Few equivalent pieces have ever been offered.

When the revised $10 Eagle went into production for the first time, in 1797, it bore the same obverse as on the quarter eagle and half eagle, with a new reverse, generally known as the heraldic eagle.

It bears a more full-bodied bird than on the small eagle design. The eagle gazes to the left on the new design and holds in its beak a ribbon inscribed E PLURIBUS UNUM, a Latin phrase connoting One Among Many. A shield is affixed on the eagle's breast. The eagle holds a bundle of arrows in its right talons (the viewer's left) and an olive branch in its left talons, and is similar to that found on the Great Seal of the United States.

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA encircles the design, as on the small eagle 1797. A semicircle of clouds stretches from wing to wing, with 13 stars positioned between the clouds and the eagle in arrangements that vary from die to die.
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