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ANA Signature US Coin Sale 1258 2-6 Aug 2017
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High Relief Double Eagles
1907 $20 High Relief, Wire Rim MS62 NGC. Four years prior to the production of the High Relief twenty dollar gold coins in late 1907, President Roosevelt sent a letter dated August 3, 1903 congratulating Saint-Gaudens on his recently completed Sherman monument installed at New York's Grand Army Plaza: "Now to my mind your Sherman is the greatest statue of a commander in existence. But I can say with all sincerity that I know of no man -- of course of no one living -- who could have done it." Commissioned a few years later to redesign the double eagle, the sculptor adapted the allegorical figure Victory for the Sherman monument, modeled after Harriette "Hettie" Anderson, as inspiration for the figure of Liberty on the coin's obverse. The striding figure of Liberty (adapted from the Sherman) shows complete strike definition and gives this piece a three-dimensionality lacking on other coins, especially those struck around the turn of the last century. The obverse is brighter than the reverse, and each side shows a nearly complete wire rim around the edge. Minimally abraded.
HID02901242017
1907 $20 High Relief, Wire Rim MS62 NGC. Four years prior to the production of the High Relief twenty dollar gold coins in late 1907, President Roosevelt sent a letter dated August 3, 1903 congratulating Saint-Gaudens on his recently completed Sherman monument installed at New York's Grand Army Plaza: "Now to my mind your Sherman is the greatest statue of a commander in existence. But I can say with all sincerity that I know of no man -- of course of no one living -- who could have done it." Commissioned a few years later to redesign the double eagle, the sculptor adapted the allegorical figure Victory for the Sherman monument, modeled after Harriette "Hettie" Anderson, as inspiration for the figure of Liberty on the coin's obverse. The striding figure of Liberty (adapted from the Sherman) shows complete strike definition and gives this piece a three-dimensionality lacking on other coins, especially those struck around the turn of the last century. The obverse is brighter than the reverse, and each side shows a nearly complete wire rim around the edge. Minimally abraded.
HID02901242017