The inspiration for the Washington Quarter.
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Do you think John Flanagan may have been influenced by the 5 lira coin from Italy??
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If he was, he certainly improved the design, in my opinion.
Adding a photo for anyone not familiar with the reverse design!
Certainly some similarity Al.... but I am not an art expert so really not qualified to advance an opinion. I do like the Washington eagle better though... Cheers, RickO
Me too.
by a strange coincidence, there are a few other minor Italian coins which came into production around 1936 with the same reverse....................except that the Eagle's head faces in the other direction!! interesting.
No. It was a last moment substitution for the family of eagles on his original design. Eagle with lowered wing tips is extremely common in Western iconography. More likely to have come from a reference to Laura Fraser's superior design.
Notice, symbolically, in the Italian version, the eagle is perched on the fasces.
I wonder if the Italian design was inspired by A Weinman?
More likely to have come from a reference to Laura Fraser's superior design.
indeed. it's sort of interesting that what was supposed to be a one-year Commemorative ended up being an Immortal design of lesser beauty that morphed, strangely, into the intended "Commemorative" almost 70 year later. add to that the fact that it also appears headed for Immortality as a Commemorative.
in the meantime, the much better and beautiful design, IMHO, by Laura Gardin Fraser finally found justice as a $5 Gold Commemorative at precisely the same time the Washington Quarter reverted to that status.
how weird is that??