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wingedlibertywingedliberty Posts: 4,805 ✭✭✭
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I often wonder when I look at patterns. What if this design was approved over the one we have now?
Would I still like the one we have now as much?

Do you think the 20c denomination would have been more successful if this was the design?





1875 20c J-1392 PCGS-PR64 pattern

This is one of the most beautiful coins I have ever seen
Your thoughts?

Brian

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  • boiler78boiler78 Posts: 3,066 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I think it is a neat design but not a particularly nice example of the J1392.
  • wingedlibertywingedliberty Posts: 4,805 ✭✭✭
    It seems that alot of patterns depict a much younger liberty, such as this example and the schoolgirl
    type dollars.

    Brian.
  • KlectorKidKlectorKid Posts: 3,723
    I wish we would have used the J-723!
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  • KlectorKidKlectorKid Posts: 3,723
    Or J-888.
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  • wingedlibertywingedliberty Posts: 4,805 ✭✭✭
    Kid:
    I like the 888 betterimage

    Brian.
  • gmarguligmarguli Posts: 2,225 ✭✭
    Given the ugly designs we have had over the years, most all the patterns would have been a better choice.
  • stujoestujoe Posts: 1,510
    I have always been partial to this one:

    LinkyThingy

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  • wingedlibertywingedliberty Posts: 4,805 ✭✭✭
    The Amazonian designs are excellent. I love that eagle.

    Brian.
  • LakesammmanLakesammman Posts: 17,413 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I've thought about it often - many patterns were great designs. They were sometimes rejected for practical reasons, other times for aesthetics....sure would have loved to have seen the harp-shield reverse on the IHC's or the schoolgirl/eagle combo on the dollar.....image Here is my favorite...the FE obverse of 1856 combined with the harp/ornamental shield reverse....what a great combo!!!

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  • wingedlibertywingedliberty Posts: 4,805 ✭✭✭
    WOW!, Gotta love that shield!


    Brian.
  • KlectorKidKlectorKid Posts: 3,723
    Great eagle on the Amazonian but I would rather have a J-888.
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  • BearBear Posts: 18,953 ✭✭✭
    The Amazonian Coin would go well with the 1917 Type1 Standing Liberty Quarter

    in ohhhhh say MS-68. They would be so lovely that I would be reluctant to spend them.
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  • LakesammmanLakesammman Posts: 17,413 ✭✭✭✭✭
    KK

    What do you find so appealing about the J-888??????
    "My friends who see my collection sometimes ask what something costs. I tell them and they are in awe at my stupidity." (Baccaruda, 12/03).I find it hard to believe that he (Trump) rushed to some hotel to meet girls of loose morals, although ours are undoubtedly the best in the world. (Putin 1/17) Gone but not forgotten. IGWT, Speedy, Bear, BigE, HokieFore, John Burns, Russ, TahoeDale, Dahlonega, Astrorat, Stewart Blay, Oldhoopster, Broadstruck, Ricko, Big Moose.
  • KlectorKidKlectorKid Posts: 3,723
    An MS-68 Amazonian could buy a whole months worth of jelly-donuts!
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  • KlectorKidKlectorKid Posts: 3,723
    I down know i just love the liberty bust, they are really nice in CAM.
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  • LanLordLanLord Posts: 11,718 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I really like stujoe's pattern, but I'm not all that thrilled with the pattern that this thread started with. I like the seated 20 cent better.
  • RussRuss Posts: 48,514 ✭✭✭
    Wow! That "boobie" pattern is stunningly beautiful. It's like a round work of geniune art.

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  • LakesammmanLakesammman Posts: 17,413 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Russ: Boobies pattern?....did you have dinner at Hooters....image


    "My friends who see my collection sometimes ask what something costs. I tell them and they are in awe at my stupidity." (Baccaruda, 12/03).I find it hard to believe that he (Trump) rushed to some hotel to meet girls of loose morals, although ours are undoubtedly the best in the world. (Putin 1/17) Gone but not forgotten. IGWT, Speedy, Bear, BigE, HokieFore, John Burns, Russ, TahoeDale, Dahlonega, Astrorat, Stewart Blay, Oldhoopster, Broadstruck, Ricko, Big Moose.
  • AskariAskari Posts: 3,713 ✭
    I've got to say that the Amazonians are some of the finest US patterns. What I've always particularly liked about them is their playful character! Miss Liberty is tickling the bald head of that eagle ... she's not the dour dowager of so many other renditions. Lots of fine missed opportunities, sad to say. And then you look at a SuzieB and just shudder. imageimage
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  • stujoestujoe Posts: 1,510
    Boobie Pattern! LOL! image

    KK, I thought I told you not to look. I guess it is ok since you only mentioned the eagle. image Your 888 reminds me of something but I can't quite place my finger on it. Roman maybe? I don't know but the design is reminiscent of something. I do like it.
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  • KlectorKidKlectorKid Posts: 3,723
    Oh heck, I have seen the Amazionan many times both on the net and in person.
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  • airplanenutairplanenut Posts: 22,243 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Great eagle on the Amazonian but I would rather have a J-888. >>

    I'd rather have Miss Liberty imageimage
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  • KlectorKidKlectorKid Posts: 3,723
    Why have liberty when I could have stephanie? imageimage
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  • stujoestujoe Posts: 1,510


    << <i>Oh heck, I have seen the Amazionan many times both on the net and in person. >>



    I figured as much. I was just kidding around because I knew you were probably reading this thread. image There is nothing wrong with that coin. It is definitely art.
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  • wingedlibertywingedliberty Posts: 4,805 ✭✭✭
    I believe a few years ago, the complete NGC Amazonian set sold for close to a million?
    I think , or close to it.

    Brian.
  • KlectorKidKlectorKid Posts: 3,723
    Superior Galleries sold it for 1.8 million. Which at the time was the second highest amount paid for U.S. coins.
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  • wingedlibertywingedliberty Posts: 4,805 ✭✭✭
    $1.8M, that was worth it, especially for a complete set.

    Brian.
  • RKKayRKKay Posts: 3,017 ✭✭✭
    What if the Schoolgirl, also designed by George Morgan, had become the "Morgan Dollar?"

    Schoolgirl Dollar
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