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***Auction Highlight*** 1900 Lafayette DuVall 2-c Lafayette Dollar $1 Graded Choice+ Unc By USCG (fc

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money Start Price:25.00 USD Estimated At:2,006.25 - 4,012.50 USD
***Auction Highlight*** 1900 Lafayette DuVall 2-c Lafayette Dollar $1 Graded Choice+ Unc By USCG (fc
***Auction Highlight*** 1900 Lafayette DuVall 2-c Lafayette Dollar $1 Graded Choice+ Unc By USCG. The Lafayette dollar, design by Charles Barber, synthesized a variety of influences. Houdon's bust of Washington and Canoes' 1824 commemorative medal depicting Lafayette are the sources most often named for the portraits, though Q. David Bowers (1991) credits Arlie Slabaugh with noting the unmistakable similarity between the conjoined portraits on Barber's design and "the obverse of the Yorktown Centennial medal of 1881, made from dies engraved by Peter L. Krider." The reverse is after Paul Wayland Bartlett, designer of the statue depicted on the reverse.Quality control was far from the minds of Mint personnel on December 14, 1899, the day the Lafayette dollars were coined. The press was an old one, long out of regular service and used mostly for traveling exhibits and promotional striking's. After the coins were struck, they fell into a hopper and mixed together, and many examples sustained significant abrasions before they ever left the Mint. Yet a handful of exemplary survivors exist today, coins such as this Superb near Gem. It is the Duvall 2-c Variety. The variety can be determined by looking at the The leaf that terminates above the 9 in the date, and the fact that the second S in STATES is repunched. It is a virtually untoned example with strong luster. Always a popular Commemorative as it is the only Dollar commemorative of the entire series as well as depicting two people on the obverse and the same person on both the obverse and reverse. The coin has many firsts and only. A Corey's Pick, Bid to Win, Don't let it get Away, you might not find its equal Coin. I give this coin my highest recommendation