The three-dollar piece was a gold coin produced by the
United States Bureau of the Mint from 1854 to 1889. Designed by Mint Chief Engraver
James B. Longacre, the
obverse ("heads" side) bears a representation of
Lady Liberty wearing a headdress of a
Native American princess, and the reverse displays a wreath of
corn, wheat, cotton, and tobacco. Longacre sought to make it as different as possible from the
quarter eagle ($2.50 piece), striking it on a thinner
planchet and using a distinctive design. Although over 100,000 were struck in the first year, the coin saw little use. It circulated somewhat on the
West Coast, where gold and silver were used to the exclusion of paper money, but what little place it had in commerce in the
East was lost in the economic disruption of the
Civil War, and was never regained. The piece was last struck in 1889, and Congress ended the series the following year. Although many dates were struck in small numbers, the rarest was produced at the
San Francisco Mint in 1870 (1870-S); only one such coin is known with certainty to exist. (
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