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High Relief Double Eagles
1907 $20 High Relief, Wire Rim MS62 NGC. The August-September 1907 issue of The Elder Monthly magazine included this forward-thinking editorial:
"The 'Order of Independent Americans' and other trouble hunters, protest against the placing of Mary Cunningham's profile on our coins because the lady was born in Ireland. Saffron and sensational journals will doubtless make capital out of this but the protest is absurd. Even the bluest-blooded Americans have only to go back a few generations to trace their ancestors to English, Irish, French, or German soil. Anyhow, we shall have to take Miss Cunningham if we are to have the designs of Mr. St Gaudens."
In August, Saint-Gaudens died just after publication of these remarks. The eagles and double eagles that bear his designs were released later in the year, and the figure of Liberty for which Cunningham modeled remains one of the iconic images in American coinage. This is a lovely MS62 example of the coin that is undoubtedly the most closely linked with the "American Century." The surfaces are bright and there are only the slightest contact marks apparent when closely viewed with a loupe.
HID02901242017
1907 $20 High Relief, Wire Rim MS62 NGC. The August-September 1907 issue of The Elder Monthly magazine included this forward-thinking editorial:
"The 'Order of Independent Americans' and other trouble hunters, protest against the placing of Mary Cunningham's profile on our coins because the lady was born in Ireland. Saffron and sensational journals will doubtless make capital out of this but the protest is absurd. Even the bluest-blooded Americans have only to go back a few generations to trace their ancestors to English, Irish, French, or German soil. Anyhow, we shall have to take Miss Cunningham if we are to have the designs of Mr. St Gaudens."
In August, Saint-Gaudens died just after publication of these remarks. The eagles and double eagles that bear his designs were released later in the year, and the figure of Liberty for which Cunningham modeled remains one of the iconic images in American coinage. This is a lovely MS62 example of the coin that is undoubtedly the most closely linked with the "American Century." The surfaces are bright and there are only the slightest contact marks apparent when closely viewed with a loupe.
HID02901242017