Show OUR EMBLEM THE EAGLE was IT rint ll td 11 by the ancient itro I tro canh en the ancient etruscans first took the eagle as a symbol of royal power and bore Us its image upon their standard standards a the romans adopted the same custom in 87 D C A liver silver eagle with expanded d wings on the top of a spear with a thunderbolt held la in iti its claws clas was adopted aa as the military standard tan dard to be borne at the bead of their legions this image was made of silver until the time of hadrian after which it was made of gold the standard adopted by the lie emperors as a two headed eagar ei gle as a symbol of their control of hota the east and the west wesl from these thes e early standards came all the eagles on the standards of modern europi o 0 the double headed eagle of russia was adopted on the marriage of iran ivan I 1 with a goclan princess of the eastern empire that of at austria was first used when the emperor of germany took the title of ro man emperor the national standard 0 of f russia bears a black eacle 1 that of poland a white one napoleon I 1 took a golden eagle for his standard modeled of pure gold and bearing waring a thunderbolt after the pattern of the eagle of rome the emblem used in the united states Is the large bald headed beaded eagle it was as in favor here no doubt became because of its connection with the ho ito mans mang those early champions of at civil liberty the design of an eagle was suggested for a national lag flag but was abandoned for the simpler design of ane stars and stripes it has often been used on regimental flags the eagle was first used on american coin in 1788 on cents and half cents issued from the massachusetts mint it was adopted in the plan of a national coin age as a design upon all gold coins and on the silver dollar half dollar and quarter dollar |