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Long Beach Signature US Coin Sale 1256 8-9 Jun 2017
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1875 20C Sailor Head Twenty Cents, Judd-1392, Pollock-1535, R.6, PR64 Cameo NGC. Designed by William Barber and nicknamed the Sailor Head design, it is nearly identical to the design of certain 1875 half eagle and eagle patterns. A coronet inscribed LIBERTY adorns a head of Liberty, her hair tied back with a ribbon. The reverse has a shield with 20 recessed and the word CENTS at the lower border. Arrows, leaves, and a glory of rays embellishes the shield with UNITED STATES OF AMERICA around. Struck in silver with a plain edge. The 'Sailor Head' design was a popular one and used on a wide variety of pattern denominations over a three-year period. USPatterns.com only traces six examples in silver and four in nickel. This is a distinctive obverse / reverse pairing as the recessed denomination is equally unusual. The surfaces are lightly hairlined and mostly brilliant with a faint ring of peripheral color around each side. There is considerable contrast between the fields and devices, as indicated by the Cameo designation.
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1875 20C Sailor Head Twenty Cents, Judd-1392, Pollock-1535, R.6, PR64 Cameo NGC. Designed by William Barber and nicknamed the Sailor Head design, it is nearly identical to the design of certain 1875 half eagle and eagle patterns. A coronet inscribed LIBERTY adorns a head of Liberty, her hair tied back with a ribbon. The reverse has a shield with 20 recessed and the word CENTS at the lower border. Arrows, leaves, and a glory of rays embellishes the shield with UNITED STATES OF AMERICA around. Struck in silver with a plain edge. The 'Sailor Head' design was a popular one and used on a wide variety of pattern denominations over a three-year period. USPatterns.com only traces six examples in silver and four in nickel. This is a distinctive obverse / reverse pairing as the recessed denomination is equally unusual. The surfaces are lightly hairlined and mostly brilliant with a faint ring of peripheral color around each side. There is considerable contrast between the fields and devices, as indicated by the Cameo designation.
HID02901242017