No Stars
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Love these coins. Does anyone know why they were only made for 2 years?
Please post yours, love to see them.
Here's my one and only.
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Please post yours, love to see them.
Here's my one and only.
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This half dime is graded MS-66, and is an absolutely wonderful original surface piece.
It knocked out this one which used to be in my collection.
And here is my dime, which is only an AU. I've not been able to upgrade this, although I've stopped on the upgrades for a while. This is a tough, very underrated type coin in the higher grades IMO.
I think that the stars were added out of sense of tradition. In all cases with the early silver coinage there had been stars for either the number of states in the early days and then the original 13 later. When these coins appeared without the stars, based upon the original Gobrecht design, the mint officials decided to bring them back.
RMR: 'Wer, wenn ich schriee, hörte mich denn aus der Engel Ordnungen?'
CJ: 'No one!' [Ain't no angels in the coin biz]
In honor of the memory of Cpl. Michael E. Thompson
<< <i>They were only made for two years because they were so elegantly simple that they were beautiful and the US Mint had already embarked on their plan to frustrate future collectors by dinking with great designs.
And they doubled down on the dinking when they hired Robert Ball Hughes to re-do Gobrecht's original die worth. The resuts were not an improvement.
Gobrecht designed dime
The Hughes "improved" design.
RMR: 'Wer, wenn ich schriee, hörte mich denn aus der Engel Ordnungen?'
CJ: 'No one!' [Ain't no angels in the coin biz]
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Just look at John Reich's "fat mistress" design that appeared on all of his designs. If such women were not not viewed as attractive, he would have depicted thinner Ms. liberties.
Hoard the keys.
One of my favorite designs.
<< <i>"Portly" was considered attractive in the 19th century. It was thought to be a sign of good health, and a better build for child bearing. It also did not hurt if the help with physical labors required of women at that time.
Just look at John Reich's "fat mistress" design that appeared on all of his designs. If such women were not not viewed as attractive, he would have depicted thinner Ms. liberties. >>
That's exactly what I was going to write before you beat me to it.
Bill, that MS66 half dime is awesome !!
<< <i>"Portly" was considered attractive in the 19th century. It was thought to be a sign of good health, and a better build for child bearing. It also did not hurt if the help with physical labors required of women at that time.
Just look at John Reich's "fat mistress" design that appeared on all of his designs. If such women were not not viewed as attractive, he would have depicted thinner Ms. liberties. >>
Also it was a sign of being financially well off
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about the question of how these "no stars" pieces came about, there
is a nice write up by R.W. Julian at this site:
Look Here
If you google "No Stars Dimes" there are a number of sites that
discuss it, but they all seem to copy each other.
R.I.P. Bear
<< <i>I really need to take some better images of this coin.
One of my favorite designs.
Excusing the mask, the circa cam look on this one looks like a Greek marble sculpture
The white space use on the reverse is poor in a crowded way.
There are other things like the awkwardly upright shield, but I do like the revised date size
(or if that is my eyes playing tricks, I like the effect of the trick)