Wednesday TV Tips: The Irish woman dressed in native American headgear on the $10 coin?
Mary Cunningham was Irish, she emigrated to America from An Charraig in the Donegal Gaeltacht. She was selected by the famous sculptor Augustus Saint Gaudens to become the face of ‘Liberty’ dressed in Native American headgear on the most controversial gold coin ever minted in America.
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