Lot 2283
1915-S Panama-Pacific Gold $2.50. PCGS graded MS-64. A very choice honey-color golden specimen. The 1915-S Panama-Pacific Exposition was held at a time in US history when the art world was casting aside the constraints of its previous Victorian ways. Many new innovations were being tested on America's coinage: matte proofing, plain, denticle-free rims on the larger coin denominations, modernistic lettering, textured fields, and the like. As can be seen, the coins struck for this expo, such as this handsome Quarter Eagle, incorporate some of these changes. Instead of a more traditional design, the artist proposed an unusual motif of Columbia seated on a mythological hippocampus, half-horse, half-sea serpent. The eagle, too, was rendered 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 (PCGS # 7450) .
Estimated Value $3,500 - 3,800.
The Arden Collection.
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