Liberté in a New Day
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While the Libertas Americana medals were struck in 1783, the French created their own version in 1792 for their Convention of Artists.
This was struck in 1792, mimicking the Libertas medal, but with a more "robust" profile, and rendered in a brownish bronze:
This one is a more modern strike, essentially copying the original dies, but rendered in golden bronze, captured by TrueView just today:
I think the golden bronze looks good on her!
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The first one was a recent Heritage? I was underbidder
--Severian the Lame
Actually, the first one is Ex: Tony Terranova that I purchased 7 years ago and submitted to PCGS myself in June 2013! As of the time I submitted it, it was the only one graded by PCGS. The one from a recent Heritage sale had the Cert #37715479.
@Weiss
Did you see the one that the Goldberg's auctioned off this past January? It was graded as MS63 and sold for $4,560!!
They are beautiful and I admire your restrain and discipline sticking to your favorite and AAA favorite ONLY
Very nice, I like the golden bronze one.... The design has a lot of 'cheek'....would be a prime area for dings and scratches... Yours are very clean. Cheers, RickO
I did not. I wasn't familiar with the piece until I saw the one at Heritage. They are beautiful in their own right, but a great companion to the Libertas pieces. The HA copy implied that the example they sold in April was a larger/heavier example than the standard version.
--Severian the Lame
True views came out very nice. The modern version has an attractive glow
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The one in the Goldberg sale was also a double-weight piece, and was Ex: Norweb Collection. Both the Heritage piece and the Goldberg piece were not noted by PCGS as being double-weight. Whereas this one was listed as Maz-318A and graded as SP63:
The one in my first post is the normal single-weight piece. If you compare the TrueViews, the Maz-318A has more definition at the highest points of the design.
Very cool! Like the look of both.
Related to the Lyon Convention medals, is this curious piece:
The reverse legend translates to "With Best Wishes".
We had a discussion about the French Liberty medals last year on the World forum
This appears to be a pattern without the cap and pole.
Actually, forget I mentioned it because it decreases my chances for it in the future
Pacific Northwest Numismatic Association
Well, they improved the hat, but it's still far too small.
Better no hat than a weird one, imo
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