United States Ten-dollar Gold Piece 1906-7, gold coin 1910 Augustus Saint-Gaudens American Having proclaimed the coinage produced by the United States Mint uninspired and commonplace, President Theodore Roosevelt invited Saint-Gaudens to redesign the ten- and twenty-dollar gold coins and the one-cent piece. Some ten months later, in November 1905, Saint-Gaudens submitted his preliminary sketches, becoming the first artist unaffiliated with the Mint to design a regular coinage issue. Roosevelt later declared the resulting coins (his "pet crime") were more beautiful than any since the days of the ancient Greeks.For the obverse of the ten-dollar coin, Saint-Gaudens used the head of Liberty, derived from Saint-Gaudenss "Victory" from the "Sherman Monument" (17.90.1), with a feather headdress. The reverse has a standing eagle similar to the one used on the "Theodore Roosevelt Special Inaugural Medal" (2008.112). For these designs, Saint-Gaudens completed numerous sketches and guided his st

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United States Ten-dollar Gold Piece 1906-7, gold coin 1910 Augustus Saint-Gaudens American Having proclaimed the coinage produced by the United States Mint uninspired and commonplace, President Theodore Roosevelt invited Saint-Gaudens to redesign the ten- and twenty-dollar gold coins and the one-cent piece. Some ten months later, in November 1905, Saint-Gaudens submitted his preliminary sketches, becoming the first artist unaffiliated with the Mint to design a regular coinage issue. Roosevelt later declared the resulting coins (his "pet crime") were more beautiful than any since the days of the ancient Greeks.For the obverse of the ten-dollar coin, Saint-Gaudens used the head of Liberty, derived from Saint-Gaudenss "Victory" from the "Sherman Monument" (17.90.1), with a feather headdress. The reverse has a standing eagle similar to the one used on the "Theodore Roosevelt Special Inaugural Medal" (2008.112). For these designs, Saint-Gaudens completed numerous sketches and guided his st

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