1875 Twenty Cents

HBCC#:

6121

Breen#:

n/a

BD#:

n/a

Judd#:

1412

Pollock#:

1555

This is essentially the adopted design, except that the date is smaller and the letters in LIBERTY are incuse. Henry Linderman caused this design to be used for regular issue coinage, contrary to his earlier instructions to make the coin “easily distinguished from the [25-Cent Piece].” Only six or seven examples are known in copper, along with a similar number of silver coins, and possibly four or five examples in aluminum.

Provenance:

From Bowers and Ruddy's sale of the River Oaks Collection, November 1976, Lot 301.

Obverse:

Christian Gobrecht's Liberty Seated motif, here varying only slightly from the type adopted for the regular-issue coins of the denomination, 1875-1878. On the present die a smaller 1875 date logotype was used. The word LIBERTY is in incuse letters rather than raised.

Reverse:

Similar in all respects to the adopted design for the regular-issue coins of the date.

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