PCGS Pr67 CAC Pattern Silver Dollar to be sold by Heritage

Ed62

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MrEureka

Bodin

WOW

Ed62

Andy talks too much.

coinsarefun

<< <i>Andy talks too much. >>

AnkurJ

ok? Please educate those of us who are uneducated about patterns.

bolivarshagnasty

The pattern looks like a compilation of a number of existing coins at the time, i.e. Indian Princess, Early Large Cent, Trade $. I love the coin.

Edited to add, What's with the hat on a stick? Can someone enlighten me?

Ed62

"What's with the hat on a stick?"

I believe the cap is the symbol of Liberty -- from the French Revolution era.

sparky64

I don't recall ever seeing that one. I like everything about it. What a great design.

I really like the cornucopia and the "God our Trust" on the Rev.

CoinCast

I have always liked this pattern, such a cool design with some many elements.

TommyType

Obviously, a pattern for the Trade Dollar....has many of the same elements.

But in all honesty, I find it a bit...busy. Too much going on, so I'm not shocked it got passed over.

Certainly a well preserved example, however!

TAMU15

"hat on a stick" = Phrygian cap.

CaptHenway

Awful lot of lint marks for a 67, even if they are as made.

originalisbest

<< <i>The pattern looks like a compilation of a number of existing coins at the time, i.e. Indian Princess, Early Large Cent, Trade $. I love the coin.

Edited to add, What's with the hat on a stick? Can someone enlighten me? >>



Same hat on a stick as on every Seated Lib design from 1836-1891, and the flowing hair + wreath cents and half-cents from 1793-1797. The Phrygian cap was emblematic of freedom from slavery (in the case of the US, independence from British rule.)

Wikipedia sez: The Phrygian cap is a soft conical cap with the top pulled forward, associated in antiquity with the inhabitants of Illyria, a region of North West Ballkan peninsula.
In early modern Europe it came to signify freedom and the pursuit of liberty, through a confusion with the pileus, the felt cap of manumitted (emancipated) slaves of ancient Rome.
Accordingly, the Phrygian cap is sometimes called a liberty cap; in artistic representations it signifies freedom and the pursuit of liberty.

originalisbest

<< <i>Awful lot of lint marks for a 67, even if they are as made. >>



Tom, would this be the only example extant? Or are there more than a few?

I love the figure on the obverse. Don't particularly care for the reverse, the as-made Trade dollar reverse is much more pleasing. Pity this obverse and that reverse didn't make the final cut. Then again, there are more than a few very awkward pattern designs that I'm quite glad never made it out of testing.

MrEureka

Andy talks too much.

I agree.

Aegis3

What planet is that globe of?