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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 3395751, member: 66&quot;]The reason Gobrecht&#039;s flying eagle was scrapped on the dollar coin was probably due to the desire to have the coinage uniform in appearance for each metal. This was policy in most of the countries of the world and we pretty much followed those guidelines until the early 20th century.&nbsp; While the dollar coin was still under debate the seated liberty had been adopted for the smaller coins but with the spread winged eagle on the reverse (basically just a modification of the same design from the Capped bust coinage).&nbsp; So when the dollar coin was approved for 1840 they changed the reverse from the flying eagle to the spread wing eagle already in use on the quarter and half. (The use of the eagle on the half dime and dime had been ended by the coinage act of 1837.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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