File:1841 US Great Seal die.jpg

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Description The 1866 counterdie made for 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.
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Extracted from PDF version of Commemorating the Seal poster, part of a State Department exhibition on the Great Seal. Direct PDF URL [1] (33MB)

Image courtesy of the National Archives (#15493) [apparently not an ARC ID]
Author U.S. Government. The 1841 die was created by John Peter Van Ness Throop; the counterdie has the same design but reversed and in relief.

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This work is in the public domain in the United States because it is a work prepared by an officer or employee of the United States Government as part of that person’s official duties under the terms of Title 17, Chapter 1, Section 105 of the US Code. Note: This only applies to original works of the Federal Government and not to the work of any individual U.S. state, territory, commonwealth, county, municipality, or any other subdivision. This template also does not apply to postage stamp designs published by the United States Postal Service since 1978. (See § 313.6(C)(1) of Compendium of U.S. Copyright Office Practices). It also does not apply to certain US coins; see The US Mint Terms of Use.

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