Grade Range: 5-12Resource Type(s): Primary Source, ArtifactsDate Posted: 6/11/2009
This is the final object in the Roosevelt/Saint-Gaudens object group.
In 1905 President Theodore Roosevelt asked sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens to lead an effort to redesign American coinage. Saint-Gaudens developed a design that many consider the most beautiful American coin ever conceived. In addition to this $20 coin, Saint-Gaudens also redesigned this $10 coin, or eagle. Although the design has always been considered subordinate to his design for the $20 coin, it deserves close scrutiny...
When Theodore Roosevelt was elected President in 1904 and needed an inaugural medal, he gave the ...
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