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<p>[QUOTE="Hobo, post: 1346635, member: 11521"]The $10 was simply called an 'Eagle', not a 'Single Eagle'. The Eagle was the highest denomination coin until 1849 when the Double Eagle was authorized. </p><p><br /></p><p>The US Mint has never struck $50 gold coins for circulation. Commemorative $50 gold coins (round and octagonal) were struck in 1915 for the Panama-Pacific Exposition. A $50 gold Pattern coin was struck in 1877. The 1877 $50 gold Pattern is known as a Half Union, which seems to imply that a $100 gold coin (if it existed) would be called a Union. </p><p><br /></p><p>All this information is found in your Red Book.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Hobo, post: 1346635, member: 11521"]The $10 was simply called an 'Eagle', not a 'Single Eagle'. The Eagle was the highest denomination coin until 1849 when the Double Eagle was authorized. The US Mint has never struck $50 gold coins for circulation. Commemorative $50 gold coins (round and octagonal) were struck in 1915 for the Panama-Pacific Exposition. A $50 gold Pattern coin was struck in 1877. The 1877 $50 gold Pattern is known as a Half Union, which seems to imply that a $100 gold coin (if it existed) would be called a Union. All this information is found in your Red Book.[/QUOTE]
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