Items | Digital Collections at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library

Indian Head Cent, 1863
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The profile of an Indian Maiden wearing a feather bonnet, which probably has LIBERTY written across the band, although coin is so worn it's hard to see. Around the maiden is UNITED STATES OF AMERICA and below the date of issue.
Commemorative coin, Lincoln and the "All-Seeing Eye
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Copper coin showing Lincoln and the "all-seeing eye." Beardless Lincoln facing right, inscriptions around rim. "JDL" under shoulder. Back has eye with heavy eyebrow, rays radiating out with inscriptions around rim. Obverse: "Abraham Lincoln/1860/Republican Candidate For President" Reverse: "The Union Must And Shall Be Preserved". Diam 1 1/4" x D 1/16".
Commemorative Coin, depicting Lincoln as railsplitter and friend
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Copper coin with Lincoln, railsplitter and friend. One of first coins struck during campaign. Beardless Lincoln facing right, inscription & decorative border along edge. Back: tall man wields mallet while other holds wedge into trunk of tree, log cabin in background. Obverse: "Hon. Abraham Lincoln, 1860" & engraver's name under shoulder. Reverse: "The Railsplitter of the Wes...
Silver' Penny, 1863
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The profile of an Indian maiden wearing a headdress, with "United States of America," around the edge, and the date, 1863, underneath.
Coin from the Sassanian Empire
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)AR drachm (drachma). The coin is from the King Khusru I (Khosrow I) reign. Obverse side has a crowned bust facing right wearing an "artichoke" crown. The reverse has a fire altar with two attendants. 30 mm diameter.
Eisenhower Bicentennial Dollar, 1976
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A left-facing profile of the WWII general and two-time President bears the words LIBERTY and IN GOD WE TRUST. Below are the Bicentennial dates, 1776-1976.
Egyptian Coin, Ptolemaic Kings
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)AR tetradrachm. Dated regnal year 89 (171-170 BC). Obverse side has the bust of Ptolemy facing right. Reverse side has an eagle on a lightning bolt. The bust of Ptolemy is struck slightly off center. 28 mm diameter.
Liberty Half-Dollar, 1857
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The seated Liberty is show with her right hand resting on a shield
Liberty Quarter Dollar, 1876
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Seated Liberty, with staff and cap. Overhead are stars for the thirteen colonies.
Susan B. Anthony Dollar, 1979
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A right-facing profile of the suffragette is surrounded by a circle of thirteen stars the word LIBERTY, to the right, IN GOD WE TRUST, and below the date.
Indian Head Cent, Obverse: 1882
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A left-facing Indian maiden wears a feathered crown. Above is UNITED STATES OF AMERICA and below is the date.
Indian Head Cent, Reverse: 1888
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The coin contains the words ONE CENT in the center, with a wreath around it. The edges of the coin are reeded. Three arrows are inserted into the wreath at the bottom and at the top is the Shield of the United States.
Commemorative Coin, depicting Lincoln and slogans
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Copper coin showing Abraham Lincoln and slogans. Profile of Lincoln, beardless, facing right, inscriptions around rim. Back has laurel wreath around slogan & inscriptions along rim, on bottom is engraver's name. Obverse: "Abraham Lincoln Born Feb.12.1809" Reverse: "Republican Candidate 1860/No More/Slave/Territory" Diam 1 1/4" x D 1/16".
A Discourse Concerning Currencies of the British Plantations in America Especially With Regard to their Paper Money
Multi-Page Item | 7 pages | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Discourse concerning the currencies of the British plantations in America, published in London, 1751. The full-text of this document is available at http://www.people.virginia.edu/~rwm3n/webdoc2.html
Indian Head/Buffalo Nickel, Obverse and Reverse: no date
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)On the obverse, an Indian shown in profile. Above is written LIBERTY. Below the date has been worn off. On the reverse is the image of a bison. Above is UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, E Pluribus Unum, and below is FIVE CENTS.
Golden Dollar with Sacagawea, Obverse: 2000
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Sacagewea, the Shoshone guide who was a guide and interpreter for the Lewis and Clark expedition, is shown with her infant son, John Baptiste. Above is LIBERTY, to the left, IN GOD WE TRUST, and on the right the date and the mint mark, a P for Philadelphia.
Coin from Venice
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)AR grosso. Antonio Veneri as Doge, 1382-1400 AD. Obverse: Christ enthroned. Reverse: Doge and St. Mark. 21 mm diameter, weak strike.
Assembly Memorial & Joint Resolution Relative to the United States Mint at Carson City, Nevada
Multi-Page Item | 3 pages | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Pamphlet entitled Assembly memorial and joint resolution relative to the United States Mint at Carson City, Nevada. [1887].
Washington Quarter, 1994
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A left-facing profile with LIBERTY overhead, IN GOD WE TRUST in tiny letters in front of Washington 19s image, and the date below. The Mint mark, D for Denver, appears on the right.
Four Indian Head Pennies, 1888
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The Indian Head pennies show the profile of an Indian maiden wearing a feather crown.
Standing Liberty Half-Dollar, 1945
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Liberty is shown striding towards the left wearing a flowing gown and enfolded in a representation of the Stars and Stripes flying in the breeze. She walks towards a rising sun, symbolic of a new day. Her right arm is outstretched and in her left she carries branches of laurel and oak, symbols of civil and military glory. The word LIBERTY is written overhead. To the right of...
Plaque, depicting Abraham Lincoln
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Bronze relief plaque of Abraham Lincoln attatched to wood panel. Lincoln penny is embedded in lower right hand corner of wood panel. Card tacked to back of panel gives information on the artist and the work. One of three cast from the original plaster mold. Relief is L 30" x W 22".
Liberty Nickel, 1886
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Liberty is shown in profile wearing a crown. Thirteen stars representing the thirteen colonies are shown around the edge and the coin bears the date.
Confederate Five Dollar Bill
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This five-dollar note is from The Augusta Insurance and Banking Company. The number 205 appears and "Will pay FIVE DOLLARS to bearer on demand." Then there is the word "Augusta," followed by an illegible word. The note is signed at the bottom by the cashier and the president, and around the edges is written "Five" and "State of Georgia." The paper is tan with black and red p...
Eisenhower Dollar, Obverse, 1974 and Reverse, 1977
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The obverse view shows a left-facing profile of the late President with LIBERTY overhead, IN GOD WE TRUST to the lower left, and below, the date. The reverse view shows an eagle with an olive branch of peace in its talons descending to the surface of the moon, on which is written ONE DOLLAR. The distant earth can be seen above and to the left. An arc of small stars surrounds...
Centennial Coin, 1889
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Profile of George Washington, with UNITED STATES OF AMERICA above and IN GOD WE TRUST below. There is a hole near the top edge.
Liberty Silver Dollar, 1895
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A left-facing portrait of Miss Liberty. She wears a crown on which is written LIBERTY. A few wheat leaves are stuck in the crown. At the back of her curly hair, she wears a Phrygian cap. Above her head is E PLURIBUS UNUM and below, the date.
Commemorative coin, Lincoln with railsplitter image
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Copper-coated medal of Abraham Lincoln with railsplitter image. Beardless Lincoln looks left with motto around rim "The President of the U.S. 1861" & "Copyright Secured" on bottom. Reverse has tall man splitting log in front of rail fence, with cabin & setting sun in background, "The Railsplitter of 1830" around rim. Diam. 1 1/2" x H 1/16".
John F. Kennedy Half-Dollar, 1964
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The left-facing profile of President Kennedy is shown in a simple design with LIBERTY overhead, IN GOD WE TRUST just under the President's image, and the date along the bottom edge.
Syrian Coin from the Seleucid Empire
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)AR tetradrachm. Roman Imperatorial government by Nero as Augustus (AD 54-68). Regnal year 7 and year 109 of the Caesarian Period
Winged Liberty Head Dime
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Liberty is shown in a winged cap. The dime reads "In God We Trust." The date and "LIBERTY" also appear. This dime was also called the Mercury Dime.
Two Nickels, Obverse and Reverse: no date
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The reverse reads "United States of America," and has a number "5" and "cents." There are thirteen stars for the colonies. The other coin shows a wreath with an indefinable shape in the middle, possibly a shield. All else has been worn off.
Liberty Head Nickels, Reverse and Obverse: 1888
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The coin with the reverse reads "V" "Cents", "United States of America," and in small letters, "E Pluribus Unum." There is also a wreath. The coin with the obverse side show a Grecian profile of Liberty wearing a crown that reads "Liberty," and the date, 1888. Around the edge of the coin are thirteen stars that represent the colonies.
Three Liberty Dimes
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The 1864 dime has a wreath and says "United States of America." The other two coins just have the wreath. All three say "One Dime." The earliest dimes were called "dismes.

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