CHRISTOPHER
COLUMBVS
OCT. XII
MCCCCXCII (Translation: Oct. 12 1492)
Obverse script
Latin
Reverse description
Description of the event, surrounded by figures etc.
Reverse lettering
AUGUSTUS SAINT-GAUDENS
MDCCCXLVIII - MCMVII
DESIGNER OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL
AMERICAN COIN, THE 1907 DOUBLE EAGLE
ON THE OBVERSE, IS DEPICTED HIS
MAGNIFICENT INTERPRETATION
OF THE DISCOVERY OF
AMERICA
LIBERTY
MCMVII
COINMEDALS T. JOHNSON
RST SCHABEL
`ASPET`
HIS HOME AND STUDIO
IN CORNISH, NEW HAMPSHIRE
WHERE HE LIVED, WORKED, AND DIED
NOW KEPT OPEN TO THE
PUBLIC AS THE
SAINT-GAUDENS MEMORIAL. (Translation: Saint-Gaudens named the estate ‘Aspet’ after the town in France where his father was born.)