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1839 Gobrecht Dollar. Silver, reeded edge. Judd-104. Pollock-116.

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1839 Gobrecht Dollar. Silver, reeded edge. Judd-104. Pollock-116.
<b>1839 Gobrecht Dollar. Silver, reeded edge. Judd-104. Pollock-116. NGC graded Proof 64.</b> A satiny frosted Gobrecht dollar with energetic mirror-smooth luster in the fields and vibrant silvery color that seems to want to motivate bidders to increase their bids as though by way of hypnotism! Best of all, this is about as fully struck as these handsome Proofs are ever found, with just terrific detail in Liberty&#39;s drapery lines, her hair, and the lines in the shield. On the reverse, the eagle soars off into eternity displaying gorgeous feathers and Gobrecht&#39;s balanced composition. On the 1839 issue, the eagle flies in a plain &#40;not starry&#41; field.

The United States Mint had ceased striking silver dollars in 1804. By the 1820s and &#39;30s, two successive Mint directors, Samuel Moore and Robert M. Patterson, had advocated reviving dollar coinage. Although Moore obtained authorization to do so in 1831, it was not until Patterson replaced him in 1835 that measures finally got under way.

Mint Director Patterson had artist Thomas Sully make sketches of a full figure of Liberty -- along the lines of the allegorical seated Britannia depicted on English coins. Patterson then retained noted painter Titian Peale to sketch the eagle for the reverse and instructed newly hired Second Engraver Christian Gobrecht to translate the designs to metal. Gobrecht&#39;s was a composite of both Peale&#39;s and Sully&#39;s works, as well as his own ideas. The obverse features Liberty seated on a rock, draped in a flowing dress -- suggesting statuary from Hellenistic Greece. A naturalistic eagle in flight was used for the reverse, the bird rising &#34;onward and upward,&#34; a position intended to symbolize the limitless optimism that Americans had for the nation&#39;s future.

LOVELY FROSTED PROOF 1839 GOBRECHT DOLLAR <b>&#40;PCGS # 11446&#41;</b>

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