Years
Designer
Charles E. Barber / George T. Morgan
Composition
Gold, or gold alloy (metric)
Diameter
22 mm
Mass
7 g
Thickness
1.3 mm
Edge
Reeded
Mints
Philadelphia
Metal
Gold
Design
Flowing Hair (Barber, 1879–80) and Coiled Hair (Morgan, 1879–80) Liberty; reverse a star inscribed ONE STELLA 400 CENTS — a proposed international metric gold coin.
History
Never adopted. A few hundred Flowing Hair 1879 pieces were struck for congressmen; Coiled Hair coins are extreme rarities. The Stella is a pattern that type collectors treat as a denomination. Most surviving Flowing Hair pieces were souvenirs, some worn as jewelry.
Key dates
2 issues