Calling all "Trade Dollar Nuts"...This has got to be the coolest pattern yet! Miss Liberty
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It's technically not a trade dollar, but it has many of the same characteristics.
From Stack's The Samuel Berngard and S.S. New York Collections
1872 pattern $1. J-1207, P-1347. Rarity-8. Proof-65 (PCGS).
Aluminum. Reeded edge. A lovely Gem example characterized by sharp frosty devices and blazing mirror fields. Mostly brilliant surfaces with blushes of pale gold-gray. The obverse depicts a seated portrait of Liberty wearing a Liberty cap. She supports a shield and holds a sword with her left hand while her right hand is extended to caress the head of an American eagle who appears to have an angry expression. The reverse features an eagle with a bundle of three arrows in its right talon (viewer's left) and a shield supported by its upraised left talon. The olive branch appears to be missing from the design unless it is represented as foliage at the base of the shield. Certainly among the most warlike designs in the U.S. pattern series. Strikings in aluminum are of great rarity. We are aware of only three different examples, all of which crossed the auction block circa 1993-1995.
Our census for the variety is presented here as it updates the listings presented in United States Patterns and Related Issues published in 1994:
1) This piece: from the Burke & Clemente sale, as detailed below.
2) From our sale of the Gaston DiBello Collection, May 1970, Lot 423; Rogers M. Fred Jr.; Bowers and Merena's sale of the Fred and Ward Collections, November 1995, Lot 2295.
3) From an old Federal Brand auction, date unknown; subsequently from Bowers and Merena's sale of the Donovan & Hudgens collections, November 1993, Lot 1405.
The King Farouk specimen (Sotheby's, 1954, "Palace Collection," Lot 1901) is presumed to be one of the above
From Bowers and Merena's sale of the Burke & Clemente collections, May 1994, Lot 1066.
Min Bid: $85,000.00
Stack's Link
From Stack's The Samuel Berngard and S.S. New York Collections
1872 pattern $1. J-1207, P-1347. Rarity-8. Proof-65 (PCGS).
Aluminum. Reeded edge. A lovely Gem example characterized by sharp frosty devices and blazing mirror fields. Mostly brilliant surfaces with blushes of pale gold-gray. The obverse depicts a seated portrait of Liberty wearing a Liberty cap. She supports a shield and holds a sword with her left hand while her right hand is extended to caress the head of an American eagle who appears to have an angry expression. The reverse features an eagle with a bundle of three arrows in its right talon (viewer's left) and a shield supported by its upraised left talon. The olive branch appears to be missing from the design unless it is represented as foliage at the base of the shield. Certainly among the most warlike designs in the U.S. pattern series. Strikings in aluminum are of great rarity. We are aware of only three different examples, all of which crossed the auction block circa 1993-1995.
Our census for the variety is presented here as it updates the listings presented in United States Patterns and Related Issues published in 1994:
1) This piece: from the Burke & Clemente sale, as detailed below.
2) From our sale of the Gaston DiBello Collection, May 1970, Lot 423; Rogers M. Fred Jr.; Bowers and Merena's sale of the Fred and Ward Collections, November 1995, Lot 2295.
3) From an old Federal Brand auction, date unknown; subsequently from Bowers and Merena's sale of the Donovan & Hudgens collections, November 1993, Lot 1405.
The King Farouk specimen (Sotheby's, 1954, "Palace Collection," Lot 1901) is presumed to be one of the above
From Bowers and Merena's sale of the Burke & Clemente collections, May 1994, Lot 1066.
Min Bid: $85,000.00
Stack's Link
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<< <i>That's my girl friend and me (I'm in the eagle outfit).
Wow, that's quite the fantasy, percyb!!!
<< <i>I can't help but notice... it appears Miss Liberty doesn't have a nipple. >>
She is wearing one of those pasties. I'm telling you, that lady is a tease.
<< <i>I can't help but notice... it appears Miss Liberty doesn't have a nipple. >>
I wish I had a nickel for every time I've heard that.
NGC registry V-Nickel proof #6!!!!
working on proof shield nickels # 8 with a bullet!!!!
RIP "BEAR"
<< <i>I can't help but notice... it appears Miss Liberty doesn't have a nipple. >>
obviously poorly struck and rather disappointing at that!
"In classical legend the Amazons were a tribe of warrior women. Their name is supposedly derived from Greek a-mazos, “without a breast,” because according to the legend they cut off their right breasts so as to be better able to shoot with a bow and arrow. This folk etymology, like most folk etymologies, is incorrect..."
For what it's worth.
Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.
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I was just thinking it was more likely a surgeon than a blood-letting Barber....sorry.
It's a very cool coin, one I would love to own in copper.
Today, we settle for the mediocre instead of taking a chance on a bold design.
Our standards have collapsed right along with our status in the world...
"Bongo hurtles along the rain soaked highway of life on underinflated bald retread tires."
~Wayne
<< <i>What's amazing is that the coin designs rejected in the nineteenth century are a million times more artistic and emblematic of the United States than those that are accepted today.
Today, we settle for the mediocre instead of taking a chance on a bold design.
Our standards have collapsed right along with our status in the world... >>
<< <i>What's amazing is that the coin designs rejected in the nineteenth century are a million times more artistic and emblematic of the United States than those that are accepted today.
Today, we settle for the mediocre instead of taking a chance on a bold design.
Our standards have collapsed right along with our status in the world... >>
Our status is just fine, although some here don't perceive it that way.
Supposedly the design was too "warlike", so it was quashed in favor of something less offensive. My, my-- it sure is easy to offend people.
Obscurum per obscurius
<< <i>It's amazing the direction some threads can take... >>
Yeah....!!!...The sword looks nice too.....