1859 Double Eagle

HBCC#:

6038

Breen#:

n/a

BD#:

n/a

Judd#:

262

Pollock#:

307

This pattern features a combination of Anthony Paquet’s Seated Liberty obverse with the James B. Longacre reverse used for regular-issue double eagles of this period. In 1859 a series of double eagle patterns was produced featuring six different obverse and reverse design combinations by Paquet and Longacre. Among the various patterns in this series, Paquet prepared this obverse with all others by Longacre’s hand. Similarly, Longacre prepared this reverse die with all others by Paquet. As with many of the Bass Collection patterns, this example served as the plate coin for United States Patterns and Related Issues by Andrew W. Pollock, III.

Provenance:

From Stack's sale of the DiBello Collection, May 1970, Lot 504.

Obverse:

Flowing hair Liberty seated, facing left, right hand on fasces, left hand on shield, eagle behind, olive branch and arrows below shield, 13 stars around. Same die as foregoing.

Reverse:

Standard reverse die used for circulating double eagle coinage of the date.

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