Lot 4231
1915-S Panama-Pacific Gold $2.50. PCGS graded MS-62. Attractive golden orange color. The 1915-S Panama-Pacific Exposition was held at a time in our history when the art world was casting aside the constraints of its previous straightlaced ways. Many new devices were being tested on America's coinage: matte proofing, rims without denticles, artistic lettering, textured fields, and the like. As can be seen, the coins struck for this expo, such as this handsome Quarter Eagle, incorporate many of these innovations. Instead of a more mundane design, the artist proposed an unusual motif of Columbia seated on a mythological hippocampus, half-horse, half-sea serpent. The eagle, too, was styled in a new way not seen before on an American production coin. It was modeled upon a similar eagle seen on one of the rare Pattern issues. The field is all a-swirl with raised die lines to give it texture (PCGS # 7450) .
Estimated Value $1,800 - 2,000.
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| Realized $2,875 |
