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1836 Pattern Dollar. J-60 NGC PF63

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / US Coins Start Price:12,000.00 USD
1836 Pattern Dollar. J-60 NGC PF63
1836 Pattern Dollar. Silver, plain edge. Judd-60. Pollock-65. NGC graded Proof 63. Original coin alignment. Wonderful surfaces overlaid with natural rainbow toning on both sides. This is a fully struck representative of the first seated Liberty silver dollar delivery in the Gobrecht series. The fields are reflective with natural patina whose color envelops both sides with swirls of powerful iridescence, especially in the obverse field. A halo of the same beaming color is also noted on the reverse at the margin.

The United States Mint had ceased striking silver dollars in 1804. Although the denomination was the "flagship" monetary unit in U.S. coinage, demand for it came mostly from bullion depositors, and few dollar coins circulated in the beginning of the 19th century.

By the 1830s, however, Mint Director Patterson, ambitious to make an artistic statement, hired artist Thomas Sully to make sketches of a full figure of Liberty -- along the lines of the allegorical Britannia found on English coins. Patterson retained noted painter Titian Peale to fashion the eagle for the reverse and instructed newly hired assistant engraver Christian Gobrecht to convert the designs to coining dies. Gobrecht's rendition is a composite of both Peale's and Sully's works with touches of his own. On the obverse, Liberty is situated on a rock, her body draped in a loose-fitting gown -- suggestive of the statuary from Hellenistic Greece. An eagle in flight garnishes the reverse, the bird rising "onward and upward," a position intended to symbolize the unbridled optimism that Americans had for the nation's Manifest Destiny. The eagle flies amid a field of 26 large and small stars, representing the thirteen original states and the thirteen admitted to the Union after 1789 (anticipating Michigan's entry). In a new 4 pronged NGC holder.Pop 18; 8 finer, 6 in 64, 2 in 65. Rarity 1 (PCGS # 11227).
Estimated Value $30,000 - 35,000.

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