1912 Commemorative Dollar

[leeg]

How cool could it have been to have one of these is your collection:

 

 

 

 

It was thought to be especially fitting in 1912 to suggest that the United States Government-one hundred years after the War of 1812-issue a commemorative silver coin of the denomination of one dollar, the design of which will emphasize the wonderful growth of the country that range of time.

 

For this commemorative dollar the above design is submitted, from which Walter E. Blyth, a young New York artist, has taken this suggestion for the above drawings

 

 

It's a true travesty in my mind that this design never made it into production!

[jtryka]

Looks like the predecessor to the state quarter program! Would each state have had a dollar issued?

[123cents]

Very cool design. Too bad it never made it to production!

[leeg]

Looks like the predecessor to the state quarter program! Would each state have had a dollar issued?

 

Yes. Each of the 48 States of the Union in 1912 would have had their own example with each states "coat-of-arms" on the reverse.

[johnny9434]

that woulda been cool idea

[DC Dawg]

I wonder what Teddy Roosevelt would have said? I wonder if he would have added this to his "Pet Crime?"

 

It also would have been interesting if he would have run in 1908 rather than follow through on his Shermanesque statement following assassination of McKinley.

 

Scott

[Dudley the 1st]

So many truly artistic coin designs failed to make it into production This is one of them. I think it's a superb coin design. Having a design accepted for production back in those early days of the twentieth century, was all back slapping politics, and how far the artist was willing to bend over.

[Keigwin]

I like that very much.

Lance.

[AnkurJ]

The obverse looks just like the obverse of a Libertas Americana Medal. Would love to see this made,

[PO01 Commem]

Gold dollars or Silver dollars?

[leeg]

Now for the rest of the story:

 

You'll have to wait for my book to be published in 2011.