Slightly off-topic. The works of St. Gaudens...

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• Stuart Posts: 9,793 ✭✭✭✭✭

  April 16, 2004 2:03PM

  I will forever be indebted to Augustus Saint Gaudens for designing the $20 Saint, the several of which I have purchased have provided me with many hours of wonderful numismatic enjoyment.
  
  It is truly one of the most beautiful coins ever minted...
  
  

  
  Stuart
  
  Collect 18th & 19th Century US Type Coins, Silver Dollars, $20 Gold Double Eagles and World Crowns & Talers with High Eye Appeal
  
  "Luck is what happens when Preparation meets Opportunity"

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• aem4162 Posts: 421 ✭

  April 17, 2004 4:25PM

  
  
  *sigh*
  *swoon*

  anita...ana #r-217183...coin collecting noob
  

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• njcoincrank Posts: 1,066 ✭✭

  April 18, 2004 10:42AM

  It looks as if someone went to Cornish recently.
  
  Great trip. Highly recommed it.
  
  Breath-taking.
  
  njcoincrank

  www.numismaticamericana.com

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• Clankeye Posts: 3,928 ✭

  April 18, 2004 10:45AM

  This isn't off topic at all. If a thread like this doesn't belong here nothing does.
  
  Thanks for sharing the pics. Truly magnificent work.
  
  Clankeye

  Brevity is the soul of wit. --William Shakespeare

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• FatMan Posts: 8,977 ✭

  April 18, 2004 10:56AM

  Next time in the NH area I will definitely check it out.
  
  
  << <i>Plaster model for a one cent coin, circa 1905. Looks more than a little like De Francisci's Peace design, no? >>
  
  Wow, very similar. Always heard De Francisici used his wife as his model. Maybe St Gaudens dated his wife's mother.

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• Gemini Posts: 3,085 ✭

  April 18, 2004 1:40PM

  For those that never saw the Civil War movie "Glory" there were some really nice close ups of the Robert Shaw Memorial in the credits at the end of the movie.
  Also was great CW movie may I add.

  A thing of beauty is a joy for ever

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• RWB Posts: 8,082 ✭

  May 26, 2006 1:19PM

  A copy of the Saint-Gaudens portrait bust known as "Nike Erini" (Victory Peace) was loaned to de Francisci by Jim Fraser so that deFrancisci could improve the Liberty portrait on his Peace dollar design. S-G had used the same portrait on his one-cent design of 1906, both without and with Indian headdress. The headdress version was assigned to the $10 gold coin by Rooosevelt in May 1907, and S-G's cent was scrapped. See: RAC 1905-1908 Chapter 3 and also pp.209-216.

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• DUIGUY Posts: 7,252 ✭✭✭

  May 26, 2006 1:28PM

  Gaudens also designed the obverse of this 1893 Colubuus
  
  

  “A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly."
  
  
  
  - Marcus Tullius Cicero, 106-43 BC

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• HighRelief Posts: 3,720 ✭✭✭✭✭

  May 26, 2006 2:13PM

  Isn't there a statue in New York Central Park that he did that was the model for Miss Liberty on the Saint?

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• BECOKA Posts: 16,961 ✭✭✭

  May 26, 2006 4:57PM

  His work is incredible. While I admire the design, I have some how gotten tired of the double eagle with one exception. I will never get tired of the high relief version. I believe this is what Gaudens may have envisioned and may be disappointed with the flatness of the low relief in comparison.

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