Very cool trial design Lincoln Nickel

Options
coinsarefun
coinsarefun Posts: 21,781 ✭✭✭✭✭
in U.S. Coin Forum
This closed yesterday on Heritage and wanted to share with everyone.......such a cool design image


1911 Fraser Electrotype trial uniface




image



image





CoinsAreFun Pictorials Album FOR SALE SOME will mark final ones before auction
.
CoinsAreFun Toned Silver Eagle Proof Album
.
Gallery Mint Museum, Ron Landis& Joe Rust, The beginnings of the Golden Dollar
.
More CoinsAreFun Pictorials NGC FOR SALE

Comments

  • Zoins
    Zoins Posts: 34,489 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Options
    Very nice. It's great to see more work from the artists we know and love image
    Private Mint News | 2010 Lincoln Reverse Finalists
  • Justlooking
    Justlooking Posts: 2,895 ✭
    Options
    The date is in a weird place, but that's an amazing piece. I've never seen it before.
    Let's try not to get upset.
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    Options
    This content has been removed.
  • nwcoast
    nwcoast Posts: 2,906 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Options
    Superimage

    Thanks for sharing this!
    I like it a LOT!

    Happy, humble, honored and proud recipient of the “You Suck” award 10/22/2014

  • edix2001
    edix2001 Posts: 3,388 ✭
    Options
    Would be a good subject for a hobo carving.
    member, Greater Houston Coin Club - Edwin's Coin Cabinet
  • kaz
    kaz Posts: 9,378 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Options
    I had no idea that even existed, thanks for posting it. Interesting reading in the auction description, too.
  • ricko
    ricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Options
    Nice piece.... and 1911 - would like to have that for my firearm esoterica... 1911 being the single best semi-auto .45 design ever by John Browning. Cheers, RickO
  • SeattleSlammer
    SeattleSlammer Posts: 10,125 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Options


    << <i>The date is in a weird place, but that's an amazing piece. I've never seen it before. >>




    +1
  • SeattleSlammer
    SeattleSlammer Posts: 10,125 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Options
    The roundness of the hair and high points gives it a bit of an unfinished look that is interesting.
  • MsMorrisine
    MsMorrisine Posts: 40,091 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Options


    << <i>Would be a good subject for a hobo carving. >>



    +1

    My first thought

    Current maintainer of Stone's Master List of Favorite Websites // My BST transactions
  • renman95
    renman95 Posts: 7,037 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Options
    Very buffaloey
  • Bullsitter
    Bullsitter Posts: 6,300 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Options
    Never seen that, thanks for posting it........neato....image
  • Treashunt
    Treashunt Posts: 6,748 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Options


    << <i>Very buffaloey >>



    great description
    Frank

    BHNC #203

  • Zoins
    Zoins Posts: 34,489 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Options

    Old Thread Update

    Has this shown up anywhere? Does anyone know who owns this now?

    Private Mint News | 2010 Lincoln Reverse Finalists
  • ricko
    ricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Options

    I have not seen it referred to again on the forum.....nor heard of it anywhere else. I think it is the only piece certified. Cheers, RickO

  • RogerB
    RogerB Posts: 8,852 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited May 13, 2019 1:57PM
    Options

    A similar Lincoln portrait was proposed by Fraser for the 1-cent coin in 1954. Trial pieces were made, but all were destroyed.

    During design of the Buffalo nickel, Fraser made many nickel-size electrotypes (he called them "electroshells") to show Treasury Secretary MacVeagh. This process allowed Fraser to interact directly with the person who would make the final decision, and also permitted MacVeagh to see what a final coin might look like. About 30 years ago a large number of these were sold at auction for very modest prices. Now - as collectors have recognized these as legitimate pattern and experimental pieces - prices have advanced considerably such as the 1911 Lincoln at $42,000.

    (See the book Renaissance of American Coinage 1909-1915 for details and illustrations.

  • topstuf
    topstuf Posts: 14,803 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Options

    Didn't see this the first time.

    He looks to me like the man in the moon. :D

  • RogerB
    RogerB Posts: 8,852 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Options

    There is a similar electrotype with a Native American that became part of the Buffalo Nickel. Some electrotypes are uniface and others are filed and soldered to resemble a coin.

  • Timbuk3
    Timbuk3 Posts: 11,658 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited May 13, 2019 5:10PM
    Options

    Pretty neat, thanks for sharing !!! :)

    Timbuk3
  • koynekwest
    koynekwest Posts: 10,048 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Options

    Very nice but I'm glad they settled on the Buffalo design.

  • Walt_Altmen
    Walt_Altmen Posts: 184 ✭✭✭
    Options

    Love the head shot. Pun not intended.

  • BLUEJAYWAY
    BLUEJAYWAY Posts: 11,803 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Options

    The location/style of LIBERTY brings to mind the Roos. Dime.

    Successful transactions:Tookybandit. "Everyone is equal, some are more equal than others".
  • Eric_Babula
    Eric_Babula Posts: 448 ✭✭✭✭
    Options

    @coinsarefun said:
    This closed yesterday on Heritage and wanted to share with everyone.......such a cool design

    1911 Fraser Electrotype trial uniface

    See, that's why I keep coming to this forum every day! I seem to learn something new every day! I never knew this existed - nice!

    Rocking my "shiny-object-syndrome"!!!

  • CaptHenway
    CaptHenway Posts: 34,177 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Options

    I worry about those prongs......

    Professional Numismatist, Retired. 55 year member ANA. Former ANA Senior Authenticator. Winner of four ANA Heath Literary Awards; three Wayte and Olga Raymond Literary Awards; Numismatist of the Year Award 2009, and ANA Lifetime Achievement Award 2020. Winner of the PNG's 2026 Robert Friedberg Award for "The Enigmatic Lincoln Cents of 1922," Available now from Whitman or Amazon.
  • Zoins
    Zoins Posts: 34,489 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Options

    @CaptHenway said:
    I worry about those prongs......

    It’s white metal which is soft so it need to come out of that prong holder. Hopefully it’s not damaged already.

    Private Mint News | 2010 Lincoln Reverse Finalists
  • emeraldATV
    emeraldATV Posts: 5,249 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Options

    WOW never knew or seen that before. Just one observation. Is he sleeping ?

  • MrEureka
    MrEureka Posts: 24,782 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Options

    @Zoins said:
    Old Thread Update

    Has this shown up anywhere? Does anyone know who owns this now?

    Pretty sure I know where it went. Unlikely to return to the market in the foreseeable future,

    Andy Lustig

    Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.
    Visit the Society of US Pattern Collectors at USPatterns.com.
  • BryceM
    BryceM Posts: 11,940 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Options

    Very cool. I wish we could go get that guy and put him to work redoing our coinage. Anyone have a time machine? Hot tub maybe?

  • Zoins
    Zoins Posts: 34,489 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Options

    @MrEureka said:

    @Zoins said:
    Old Thread Update

    Has this shown up anywhere? Does anyone know who owns this now?

    Pretty sure I know where it went. Unlikely to return to the market in the foreseeable future,

    Hopefully it’s out of the NGC prong holder which has harmed soft metal coins before. Might be worth reaching out with a warning just in case.

    Private Mint News | 2010 Lincoln Reverse Finalists

Leave a Comment

BoldItalicStrikethroughOrdered listUnordered list
Format
SpoilerCodeQuote
Heading 2Heading 1
Emoji
:):D:(;):/:o:s:p:'(:|B):#:*<3o:)>:)
Url
Image
Align leftAlign centerAlign rightToggle HTML viewToggle full pageToggle lights
Drop image/file
Comment As ...

Categories