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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 3101349, member: 66&quot;]Actually the law as written was really weird.&nbsp; Originally it required the eagle to appear on all the coins of gold and silver,&nbsp; When the coinage act of 1837 was passed it required the eagle to appear on all the silver and gold coin but that on the half dime and dime (and the half cent and cent) the eagle was to be omitted.&nbsp; the coinage act of 1873 did much the same thing requiring the eagle to appear on all US coins, and the going on to say that on the 1, 3, 5 cent, dime, one dollar and three dollar gold the eagle shall be omitted.&nbsp; Why mandate it on all coins and then specify coins it was NOT to be on?</p><p><br /></p><p>Note that technically under the Act of 1837 the Flying eagle cent design was illegal as the law specified that the eagle was to be omitted from the one cent piece.</p><p><br /></p><p>Current law does still require the eagle to be on all coins larger than a dime, but later laws can always make exceptions and that is what the State and ATB quarter and NA dollar legislations did.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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