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Featured articleIndian Head gold pieces is a featured article; it (or a previous version of it) has been identified as one of the best articles produced by the Wikipedia community. Even so, if you can update or improve it, please do so.
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August 24, 2011Good article nomineeListed
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Did You Know A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on August 23, 2011.
The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that the Indian Head gold pieces (quarter eagle pictured) are the only circulating U.S. coins to have a recessed design?
Current status: Featured article

The "only" circulating U.S. coin with recessed designs?

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Please note that the current series of quarter dollars commemorating National Parks contains recessed (incuse) printing around the reverse edge. Please see http://www.parkquarters.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Gettysburg-National-Military-Park-Quarter.jpg for one example.

206.169.197.222 (talk) 18:07, 23 August 2011 (UTC) MJB[reply]

Lettering is not a design--Wehwalt (talk) 21:56, 23 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Now a FA in Chinese Wikipedia

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I have translated this article to Chinese Wikipedia here and promoted to FA status, and I want to thank User:Wehwalt for his effort to write this amazing article. --Jarodalien (talk) 08:32, 11 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Great work, Wehwalt and Jarodalien! ---Another Believer (Talk) 15:55, 12 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hello! This is a note to let the editors of this article know that File:NNC-US-1908-G$5-Indian Head.jpg will be appearing as picture of the day on August 8, 2018. You can view and edit the POTD blurb at Template:POTD/2018-08-08. If this article needs any attention or maintenance, it would be preferable if that could be done before its appearance on the Main Page. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 01:37, 21 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Indian Head half eagle
An Indian Head gold piece in the denomination five American dollars (a half eagle). The same design by Augustus Saint-Gaudens as the eagle and double eagle was originally to be used, but this design by Boston sculptor Bela Pratt was chosen instead. Struck from 1908 to 1916, and in 1929, the Indian Head half eagle is one of only two U.S. circulating coins with recessed (incuse) designs.Coin: United States Mint; photograph: Jaclyn Nash/National Numismatic Collection