Depicts a close up of the bust of Thomas Crawford’s Statue of Freedom. A view of the full statue is used for the silver dollar. The inscriptions on the half dollar include “Bicentennial of the Congress” above, “In God We Trust” and “Liberty” below, and the anniversary dates “1789” and 1989″ to each side.

The Statue of Freedom, also known as Armed Freedom or simply Freedom, is a bronze statue designed by Thomas Crawford (1814–1857) that, since 1863, has crowned the dome of the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C. The statue depicts a female figure bearing a military helmet and holding a sheathed sword in her right hand and a laurel wreath and shield in her left. The Statue of Freedom is a colossal bronze standing figure 19+1⁄2 feet (5.9 m) tall and weighing approximately 15,000 pounds (6,800 kg).

Design: Patricia Lewis Verani

Depicts a full view of the Capitol Building accentuated with a pattern of seven stars above and three stars to each side below, representing the original 13 colonies. The inscriptions read “United States of America”, “E Pluribus Unum”, and “Half Dollar”.

The United States Capitol, often called The Capitol or the Capitol Building, is the meeting place of the United States Congress and the seat of the legislative branch of the U.S. federal government. It is located on Capitol Hill at the eastern end of the National Mall in Washington, D.C.

The original building was completed in 1800. It was partly destroyed in the 1814 burning of Washington, then was fully restored within five years. The building was later enlarged, with the addition of a massive dome, and extended wings with expanded chambers for the bicameral legislature, the House of Representatives in the south wing and the Senate in the north wing. Like the principal buildings of the executive and judicial branches, the Capitol is built in the neoclassic style and has a white exterior.

Design: William Woodward
Modelling: Edgar Z. Steever