half eagle
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of half eagle
An Americanism dating back to 1780–90
Example Sentences
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The coin, which is the first 1854-S half eagle minted, is one of just three examples known to exist.
From Fox News • Mar. 6, 2020
The 1854-S half eagle coin was struck in April 1854 one day after the opening of the San Francisco Mint, according to auction house Stack’s Bowers Galleries.
From Fox News • Mar. 6, 2020
But that is only half of it; the griffon itself is already half eagle and half lion.
From Time Magazine Archive
Rarest of the lot: an 1854s $5 half eagle, one of three extant, which fetched $16,500 from a buyer.
From Time Magazine Archive
The former was a creature half eagle, half lion, popularly supposed to be the progeny of the union of these two latter.
From Bygone Beliefs: being a series of excursions in the byways of thought by Redgrove, H. Stanley (Herbert Stanley)
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