A ten dollar gold piece.
1789. The Eagle containing 10 dollars of 50d. is worth 2 guineas, and rather more.—Gazette of the U.S., N.Y., July 14.
1789. You receive 3 Eagles, 9 dollars, 7 cents. Enter these figures in your book without any dot, when they will read 3907 cents.—Id., July 4.
1803. A vast river of golden eagles ready coined, which at a trifling expense in cutting canals and constructing locks may easily be turned into the treasury of the U.S.—Gazette of the U.S., Phila., Nov. 30: ridiculing Thomas Jefferson’s Account of Louisiana.
1810.
| One hundred Eagles was the price; | |
| I paid the shiners in a trice. | |
The Repertory, Oct. 16, from the Hampshire Federalist. |
1838. [The quarantine-boat is kept] as neat as a new-coined eagle, and her little cabin like a lady’s boudoir.—E. C. Wines, ‘A Trip to Boston,’ p. 75.
1841. It was an open declaration of war upon the half eagles, the gold currency…. This gold, in half eagles, was too good for us, and must therefore be driven out of the country.—Mr. Walker of Mississippi, U.S. Senate: Cong. Globe, p. 269.
1842. His passage was $4., and he was given a gold eagle ($10.) and $5. silver in change, one dollar being retained for discount on the note.—Phila. Spirit of the Times, Dec. 6.
1852. He was pleased with the work, and was about to contribute a half eagle to the funds, when I checked him, asking why he gave money to build this monumnet, since he would soon have no common interest in it with the citizens of other states?—Knick. Mag., xl. 323 (Oct.).
1859. When you have stamped a gold bar worth so many dollars or so many eagles, that does not make it the money of the country…. It is money in no sense whatever.—Mr. Bayard of Delaware, U.S. Senate, Feb. 22: Cong. Globe, p. 1221.
1861. [It] has caused us to grope like blind men in the dark, and scramble for the picayunes when we might as well have picked up the eagles.—George A. Smith at the Tabernacle, Salt Lake City, April 6: ‘Journal of Discourses,’ ix. 19.
1888. Albert carried in a sack, tucked in his hip pocket, 890 dols., mostly in double eagles.—Troy Daily Times, Jan. 31.
