My first so called Pattern pickup arrived today 1792 Quarter Dollar

coinsarefun

Now that I have the attention of the Pattern guys
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Yes, I will call it my first "so-called" pattern coin as it is actually a Gallery Mint Museum copy of the 1792 Quarter Dollar Pattern. I just love the way Heritage Describes the real Pattern so I will borrow their words click on the link if you want to see and read the entire description. I also want to give a shout out to a wonderful member here that I purchased this from, he was a true gentleman and made this a great and easy transaction @Coinlearner, thanks again!
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Forgot to add....if anyone wants to post some patterns by all means please do
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** "The 1792 Eagle-on-Globe quarter dollar patterns exhibit a number of stylistic differences from the other coinage of 1792. The cents, half dismes, and dismes all indicate their denomination, while this coin remains silent with regard to its value. The other 1792 patterns further bear the legend LIBERTY PARENT OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY (or its abbreviation), while this piece displays only LIBERTY. The quarter dollar pattern's eagle is markedly different from that of the half disme and disme, which clearly share a common source. The eagle here is a powerful bird exercising dominion over the earth, as opposed to the eagle of the half disme and disme, a scrawny, goose-necked creature (Cornelius Vermeule, in Numismatic Art in America, called it an "ailing barnyard fowl"). The engraver finely rendered the figure of Liberty on the quarter dollar pattern, with the hair gathered in a bun."**
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Now, since there aren't enough of them to go around....I think only 4 known examples and they tend to be a little pricey
I decided this Gallery Mint Museum piece will do just fine until I feel comfortable dipping my toes in the real waters of Pattern Coinage. Kinda like what I have done with Colonial Coinage, I found it very expensive to put a nice collection together so I pursued the electrotypes and ended of with a very nice little set.
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By the way I think this copy was done by Ron Landis, if not someone can correct me. I was quite curious to see just how close
the copy came to the real deal. I forgot to mention this is a Die Trial Piece so the word copy does not appear on the coin, but on the reverse of each splasher does have the work copy on it.
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So the images below I have posted, a copper and white metal example of the real deal.
Followed by my image of the Gallery Mint Piece.
Below that is an overlay of the Gallery Mint on top of the real copper piece. They are quite exact. I slid my image over
slightly so you do not get lost while viewing both on top of each other.
The very last image is the 2 pieces sitting side by side, you can see one is larger than the other as they really hammered the reverse......lol so it spread out more.
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I hope you enjoy looking as much as I enjoy learning.
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The real McCoys'

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The Gallery Mint Die Trials

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An overlay of the gallery mint piece over the real pattern, just right click and open in another window for big pic

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Image of the splashers side by side, they are quite beefy

Regulated

I love that pattern, but I remain unconvinced that it is a quarter and not a cent. I'm pretty sure that the portrait is Anne Willing Bingham - daughter of Thomas Willing, who was the original President of the First Bank of the United States, and a former business partner of Robert Morris's.

I'd love to find a much better image of the white metal pieces at the New York Historical Society - the reverse looks like it doesn't have the beadlike things punched into the stars, which would make it possible to determine whether they were made using the same punch as the ones on the Starred Reverse Cent.

coinsarefun

I pretty much agree with you @Regulated but, isn't the diameter a little large for a cent?
I must admit I do not collect large cents so I may be wrong here. It just looks really large for a cent.

Regulated

If I'm not mistaken, it's the same diameter as a Liberty Cap cent.

Coinosaurus

@coinsarefun said:

I just love the way Heritage Describes the real Pattern so I will borrow their words

Thank you

The Wright estate presented an invoice for quarter dollar dies, which is the strongest evidence for calling it a quarter. I'm fairly confident with attributing Wright as the engraver but even that is not 100%.

On the flip side, the Mint may have realized by this point that silver coinage wasn't going to happen anytime soon (since the coiner wasn't bonded), and simply made these as yet another pattern cent (along with the Birch, silver cent, so-called "fusible alloy" cent, etc.).

The Wright "quarter" in MS63 was my favorite coin in the Partrick sale. Beautiful design and varied color when tilted.

Zoins

Great pieces and photos Stef. I have a pair of these and love the look.

These were in the last issue of the Gallery Mint Newsletter which also had a tribute to Joe Rust.

MikeInFL

That's another neat piece of work by Mr. Carr. Thanks for sharing & I hope you enjoy your new purchase.

coinsarefun

@Regulated you may be quite right in this as I was searching and they are very close.
@coinasaurus, did you write the description? If so ........very well done! And some nice background info too.
@zoins thanks for posting that, Iforgot to include this.
@MikeInFL thanks but you may have confused this piece with dc.

Broadstruck

Ugh I like a Gallery Mint issue which is like one step away from getting a Coin Tattoo