DATE: October 21, 1795 TOWN: Boston, Massachusetts SOURCE: Columbian Centinel |
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DATE: October 21, 1795 TOWN: Boston, Massachusetts SOURCE: Columbian Centinel |
| Half Eagles Issued |
About 8,000 Half Eagles (value Five dollars) have been issued
from the mint of the United States. The Editor has one in his possession
-- It is finely executed. LIBERTY is represented by a female head, in which
the finest touches of the graver, display the most perfect symmetry
of feature, animated with the truly beneficient expression of a
DEITY. Our Columbian artist, has evinced the justness of his ideas of Freedom,
by the mild, yet resolute, the firm, yet feminine
soul, which he has communicated to his figure of that divine goddess; speaking
eloquently from her countenance, winning our love and commanding our homage.
The reverse bears the American Eagle, soaring with the Olive Branch.
The gold appears of the finest carat; and the coinage must be popular
not only from its intrinsic value, but its extrinsic workmanship.
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