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Description The 1841 die of the Great Seal of the United States. It is sometimes called the "illegal die" because it only has six arrows instead of the required 13. This die was used until 1877.
Date (die); photo from the 1970s.
Source Scanned from page 202 of The Eagle and the Shield by Richard Patterson and Richardson Dougall, 1978.
Author Photo courtesy of the National Archives.

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