Classic Head (No Motto on Reverse) 1834-1839: In the 1830’s William Kneass designed the Classic Liberty Head. The obverse features Miss Liberty wearing a coronet inscribed “Liberty” surrounded by thirteen stars symbolizing the original colonies and the year it was engraved. On the reverse side a bald eagle stands tall with its wings spread clutching an olive branch and arrows in his claws with a shield across its chest. The United States of America is imprinted around the symbolic bird.

Liberty Head 1840-1907: The Liberty Head was designed by Christian Gobrecht, in 1839. He revised the head of the Liberty making it smaller, and putting her hair up in a bun braiding the hair around her forehead and temple. The reverse changes consisted of making the eagle more ornithologically accurate.

Indian Head 1908-1929: Bela Lyon Pratt designed the Indian Head coin in 1908. On the front of the coin, an Indian chief stands tall in a ceremonial headdress with the words LIBERTY written above and is surrounded by thirteen stars. The reverse features and American eagle posed on top of an olive branch engulfed in arrows with wings at its side. The phrase United States of America heads the coins on the top with the ever-famous IN GOD WE TRUST below and to the right. The Indian Head was original in its time because it was the first coin to have a recessed design.