Sentence examples for using the eagle design from inspiring English sources
As the Eisenhower dollar awaited its demise, approximately 50,000,000 per year were struck, using the eagle design for the reverse.
On December 2, Mint Director Frank Leach instructed the Philadelphia Mint to prepare coinage dies for the small pieces, using the double eagle design.
Preston wrote to Roberts, asking for information about the new coinage, and the former Mint director responded on August 12, outlining the correspondence with Saint-Gaudens, and noting that "no instructions have been received from the President as to the half and quarter eagle, but I expected that the eagle design would be used upon them .
In August (the month of Saint-Gaudens' death from cancer), outgoing Mint Director George E. Roberts wrote, "no instructions have been received from the President as to the half and quarter eagle, but I expected that the eagle design would be used upon them".
The eagle design did not strike well, and was replaced in 1859 by Longacre's Indian Head cent.
Patterson requested that the bird appear natural; he criticized the eagle designs then in use on the nation's coinage as being unnatural primarily because of the shield placed on the eagle's breast.
The Mint struck at least several hundred patterns using Longacre's flying eagle design in the proposed composition.
Leach recalled in his memoirs: As a result of the White House lunch meeting, Leach agreed to abandon the idea that the double eagle design be used for the small gold pieces, and to cooperate with Bigelow and Pratt in the making of the new coins.
Although the reverse for the dollar was probably selected to match that of the quarter and half dollar, it is not known why the flying eagle design was not used for the lower denominations in the first place.
On November 28 , 1907 Treasury Secretary George Cortelyou wrote in a letter that the double eagle design was to be used for the two small gold pieces.
