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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 4793940, member: 110350&quot;]Are you sure that the first eagles on U.S. coins were directly inspired by Roman coinage, rather than indirectly? I know little or nothing about the subject, but a brief amount of time poking around suggests that those early U.S. eagles were modeled on the Great Seal of the United States, which in turn was based on the heraldic eagle of Europe, dating back to the Middle Ages (and appearing on a lot of European coinage*); the heraldic eagle in turn was ultimately derived from the Roman eagle.&nbsp; That kind of indirect derivation seems to me like a more likely explanation. Then again, what do I know?</p><p><br /></p><p>* See, for example, the eagle on this Prussian Reichsthaler of 1790:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1164538[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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