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Rest in Peace
United States
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Good idea to change our U.S. coinage . Portraits instead of profiles , Cents through Halves.  |
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As others said above and as I said in this thread from a year ago, we don't usually need to "imagine" what they'd look like, since in many cases we actually know the names and have other pictures of the models which the artists used to model Liberty. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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New Member
 United States
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I don't agree, Sap. I want to "imagine" them, and others in this forum clearly do, too. So far, people have provided me with real-life models for only the Peace dollar and Morgan dollar, but I want to see more. What's the harm in it? Also, if you have them, please provide me examples of the "many cases" in which we actually know the names and pictures of the models. I'd sure like to see them. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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i think the illustration is beautiful and I would love to see a seated liberty depiction.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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wait, Gravey09, are Graveymaster2 from the other thread that Sap linked us to? You came back over a year later and posted the same exact thoughts. Interesting. Will you be back in 2017 as Graveytrain17?
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New Member
United States
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Yup, that's me. I mistakenly created 2 logins at some point or another. Not sure why. Anyway, the illustration of coin portraits has always come back to my mind, and I finally found someone who could do one for me. I love what the artist did. But I think I'd have to pay her to do more of them for me. She spent a fair amount of time doing the Morgan dollar one for me. |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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The model for the Draped Bust coinage (1796 - 1809) Ann Willing Bingham  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Meet Teresa Cafarelli, wife of Peace dollar designer Anthony de Francisci, and model for the Peace dollar. She was quite attractive:   |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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So who were the Models for the Eagles on many coins?  |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Quote:So far, people have provided me with real-life models for only the Peace dollar and Morgan dollar, You actually have a real life image of the model for the Morgan dollar? (The portrait posted by Amida17 is actually an artists rendering based on the coin not an actual person.) |
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United States
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Quote: Meet Teresa Cafarelli, wife of Peace dollar designer Anthony de Francisci, and model for the Peace dollar. She was quite attractive: Very nice! A worthwhile bump for the topic.  |
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Very nice... but the nose (bridge and tip) seem to be a bit wide ... IMO...
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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It seems like there was some requirement to make the line from the top of the forehead to the tip of the nose as straight as possible on liberty figures for coins. Almost every liberty figure on U.S. coins has this trait.
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Bedrock of the Community
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So who were the Models for the Eagles on many coins? The only one I know for sure was for the eagle on the Gobrecht dollar and later the Flying Eagle cent , that was Peter, a bald eagle that believe it or not made his home in the Philadelphia Mint. Made the mistake one day of trying to perch on a moving flywheel. |
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Made the mistake one day of trying to perch on a moving flywheel.   |
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