DATE: October 21, 1795

TOWN: Boston, Massachusetts

SOURCE: Columbian Centinel

GOLD COINAGE

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 beneficent 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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