Patterns
1873 T$1 Trade Dollar, Judd-1315, Pollock-1458, R.4, PR63 Cameo NGC. Bailly's Liberty design is seated left on the obverse with cotton bales, tobacco plants, and wheat sheaves around her. Her right (facing) hand supports a globe inscribed with LIBERTY while her left holds high a pileus cap. A small eagle atop a shield dominates the reverse with the inscriptions UNITED STATES OF AMERICA and E PLURIBUS UNUM above and 420 GRAINS, 900 FINE and TRADE DOLLAR below. Struck in silver with a reeded edge. These dollar patterns were struck in silver, copper, aluminum, and (one piece) in white metal. This impressively designed Trade dollar is brilliant throughout with strong white-on-black contrast on each side.
From The Sounder Collection, Part II.