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English: Reverse of the 1933 Double Eagle.

This is a scan from the US Mint Pressroom Image Library [1]. As a U.S. coin, the design is in the public domain, and per United States Mint Circulating Coin Design Use Policy, it is being used in an educational way to help identify and illustrate the 1933 Double Eagle article on Wikipedia.

Also, per the Policy, since the source of the image is from the United States Mint Website, image credits on Wikipedia must carry the tagline United States coin image from the United States Mint.
Date 10 March 2007 (original upload date) for the image. Coin is from 1933 (originally struck 1907)
Source Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons by Sreejithk2000 using CommonsHelper.
Author US Mint for the image; Augustus Saint-Gaudens for the coin

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This image is a work of the United States Department of the Treasury, taken or made as part of an employee's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the image is in the public domain in the United States.

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Coin:

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This image depicts a unit of currency issued by the United States of America. If this is an image of paper currency or a coin not listed here, it is solely a work of the United States Government, is ineligible for US copyright, and is therefore in the public domain in the United States.
Fraudulent use of this image is punishable under applicable counterfeiting laws.

As listed by the the U.S. Currency Education Program at money illustrations, the Counterfeit Detection Act of 1992, Public Law 102-550, in Section 411 of Title 31 of the Code of Federal Regulations (31 CFR 411), permits color illustrations of U.S. currency provided:
1. The illustration is of a size less than three-fourths or more than one and one-half, in linear dimension, of each part of the item illustrated;
2. The illustration is one-sided; and
3. All negatives, plates, positives, digitized storage medium, graphic files, magnetic medium, optical storage devices, and any other thing used in the making of the illustration that contain an image of the illustration or any part thereof are destroyed and/or deleted or erased after their final use.

Certain coins contain copyrights licensed to the U.S. Mint and owned by third parties or assigned to and owned by the U.S. Mint [2]. For the United States Mint circulating coin design use policy, see [3]; for the policy on the 50 State Quarters, see [4].

Also: COM:ART #Photograph of an old coin found on the Internet

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  • 2007-03-10 08:53 293.xx.xxx.xx 2000×2000× (3004381 bytes) Reverse of the [[1933 Double Eagle]]. This is a scan from the [[US Mint]] Pressroom Image Library [http://www.usmint.gov/pressroom/index.cfm?action=Photo#DE]. As a U.S. coin, the design is in the public domain, and per [http://www.usmint.gov/consumer/in

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