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Does any one know who the American Indian was that appears on the $2.50 & 5.00 gold piece ?

gilgil Posts: 988
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Just wondering if it was an actual person or a "made up" portrait.
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  • ms70ms70 Posts: 13,956 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I believe he was an actual person but I forget his name.

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  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,868 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Like the buffalo nickel, he was probably a composite of several models.

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  • magikbillymagikbilly Posts: 6,780 ✭
    I dunno, but I bet they were underpaid image it still baffles me - the treatment they endured while being depicted as Liberty herself. Only in America image
    Like women - chosen to represent the ideals of liberty/freedom but still earning less etc etc.


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  • gilgil Posts: 988
    ttt
  • DHeathDHeath Posts: 8,472 ✭✭✭
    Breen said the model was unknown, but several references say it was a composite of several photos of "healthy indian warriors". Here's more of the story.
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  • CoinOnTheCobCoinOnTheCob Posts: 712
    I actually remember this being on a Discovery Channel program. It was of a well-known Native American that the US Cavalry had in custody. Of course, I forget who it was.
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  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,893 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I don't think Pratt's Indian model for the coins was named, but I believe the Indian on the old $5 silver certificates was Running Antelope.

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  • CoinOnTheCobCoinOnTheCob Posts: 712
    LordMarcovan is probably right. The way I remember the program, the “money” that the Native American posed for wasn’t specified.

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    Edited to say: See what I mean about my memory not coming back all at once? It was The History Channel, not The Discovery Channel.
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  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,893 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I have a pornographic memory, but it doesn’t all come back to me at once. >>



    How tragic. image

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  • DanegeldDanegeld Posts: 1,497
    Augustus St. Gaudens?

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  • Nocerino18Nocerino18 Posts: 1,572 ✭✭✭


    << <i>" I have a pornographic memory" >>



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  • CoinOnTheCobCoinOnTheCob Posts: 712
    … lets see, Flowing Hair, Draped Bust …

    I wish I can remember that Native American’s name. Running Antelope may have posed for some currency, but the one who posed for a coin was shot and killed while in the Army’s custody.
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  • magikbillymagikbilly Posts: 6,780 ✭
    The History Channel is notoriously incorrect. Not generally very good source for reality.


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  • kiyotekiyote Posts: 5,588 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Susan B. Anthony?
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  • CoinOnTheCobCoinOnTheCob Posts: 712


    << <i>Susan B. Anthony? >>


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    The Shoshone on the Sacagawea would be closer.
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