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Continuing With The Ship Theme...

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Continuing-With-The-Ship-Theme...

Adolph Weinman's Mercury dime design is one of the great coins in US history. His son, Howard Weinman designed this 1936 commemorative (one of many from that year). The coin continues a theme started in my last post on the Huguenot. A coin about Dutch settlers, a tercentenary coin, and a commemorative with a ship on the reverse. The coin was designed to defray the costs of a celebration (as most commemoratives at the time were) but the coin was minted and sold after the celebration.

This is fine looking ship. MS-65 with a thin layer of toning.




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01/02/2012 12:15 am
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Beautiful coin indeed cc ... I've always enjoyed the sailing ships as depicted in the classic USA silver commemorative series.

There are many of them of course ... someday I will run a contest asking for folks to identify all the sailing ships in this series.

The Dutch three masted sailing ship shown on this Long Island Half always reminds me of Chester Beach depiction of the Half Moon on his 1935 Hudson Half design.

I've never seen a Long Island Half with any rigging detail on the ship sails ... so finally gave up and assumed this is not the nature of the strike but the way young Mr. Weinman designed the coin.

Lovely coin indeed ... thanks for sharing the photo!

David

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http://www.ebay.com/itm/1936-LONG-I...em4cfd088b65

I've been staring at this one for a long time. I think I really like it. David, do you think this is a better coin than the one I posted?
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CC personally I like the one linked to ebay better but I am one who really likes rim toning on my coins too.

it also appears to have a stronger strike.

Both are nice coins and I like the ship theme as well.
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In my view ... the appeal of toning on silver coins is very much subject to personal preference ... and to my eye toning on silver coins is almost always distracting.

I clearly recognize that many collectors enjoy the look ... and to them I say good for you ...

Personally ... I prefer the white coin in the original post ... although the toned E-Pray example does appear to have a stronger strike ... and as well a significant bag hit on the obverse above the brow of male Dutch settler figure.

You're on your own for this call CC ... sorry.

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