History Facts. The Eagle on coinage. 1 1

[Mr.Bill347]

I’ll bet you didn’t know this about the eagle on early US coins.

https://historyfacts.com/us-history/fact/the-eagle-once-depicted-on-u-s-coins-was-a-real-eagle-named-peter/?email=wehorton65%40gmail.com&sub_level=L1&sub_source=email_daily&utm_campaign=2090674875&utm_content=email_daily+P1_CTA&utm_medium=email&utm_source=15203108

 

[Henri Charriere]

Now if you can only find out where and when that expression, "sneaky pete" came from.  

[RWB]

There was an eagle hanging out at the Philadelphia Mint, and his name was Peter. He was found with a damaged wing and could not fly. At some point he fell into the flywheel on a coinage or cutting press, and that was his end. He was stuffed and became a decoration around which an elaborate and false tale was concocted.

Peter never modeled for any coin; and eagles (and other raptors) have been cultural/political symbols for thousands of years.

[Jason Abshier]

The eagle bird was a symbol not only used by America at the time , but several other countries also used eagle on their coins Germany , Austria ,Mexico , Russia , Romania , Poland …. To name a few