1938 Jefferson Nickel Winning & Losing Design Set

The Frans Hejda 1938 Losing Design looks like Boris from Rocky and Bullwinkle, maybe even Mr. Spacely from the Jetsons, with a bit of Dudley Do-Right thrown in

I hate to bring a thread back from the dead, but can anyone give me more information about the Frans Hejda design coin? One came into the LCS the other day

Mine coin was borrow by a book author who has still not returned it now 4 months later.

They are not official us mint coins, real us currency of them don't exist but they were produced in small runs off the original designs

In 1994 Stacks Bower's auctioned off two 11' uniface plasters models from the designer Frans K Hejda that had been submitted for the 1938 design competition.

The plasters sold for about $4k us dollars to a European collector who had the plasters made into dies reduced to correct size.

There were supposedly 1,938 pieces of proof quality, sterling silver strikes made in honor of the 60th anniversary of the 1938 competition and the dies were then destroyed (not plasters).

I not usually as much as I would pay for another

the winner designs in SEG slab if you have a pair of matte and proof could get $400-500 but also sometimes include the FKH or about 150-200 each

I got this one in the mail the other day.

It is a beautiful coin and I highly recommend anyone that is interested pick one up if they can.

I don't believe such reference exists. If I remember correctly, each artist could pay to have their models shipped back to them, or else the models would be destroyed. Most of the designs weren't shipped back, however every once in a while you'll see a pair come up to auction.

There's an awesome photo out there that shows Nellie Ross walking through all of the plaster models that were submitted, but I can't find it right now.