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10 Dollars Martin van Buren's Liberty, Bullion Coinage
| Issuer | United States Mint |
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| Year | 2008 |
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| Weight | 15.552 g |
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| Obverse description | Seated Liberty effigy adapted from Christian Gobrecht's classic design used on the Liberty Seated Dime series of 1837–1891, depicted in classical draped robes facing right, resting her left hand on a heraldic shield inscribed LIBERTY and holding a pole surmounted by a Liberty cap in her right hand. The figure is seated on a rocky outcrop with a beaded border encircling the field. The arc legend 8TH PRESIDENCY appears above, the motto IN GOD WE TRUST curves along the lower left and right, the presidential term dates 1837-1841 are inscribed in the lower field, the issue year 2008 appears at lower right, and the W mintmark is situated to the right of the figure. |
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| Mintage | 2008 W - - 3,826 2008 W - Proof - 6,807 |
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The "First Spouse" bullion series was authorized under the Presidential $1 Coin Act of 2005, which mandated a companion gold issue for each president honored in the circulating dollar program. Van Buren presented an awkward problem: a widower whose wife Hannah had died nearly two decades before he took office, he never remarried. The Mint's solution was to use the allegorical Liberty figure from Van Buren's era coinage rather than a portrait — one of only a handful of such substitutions in the series.
Struck in four-nines fine gold, these saw modest mintages that have held collector premiums well above melt.