Pilgrim Tercentenary Half Dollar in the News

[Mokiechan]

For those of us that are just plain worn out by the SAE 25th Anniversary story.

 

I was reading Coin World and ran across an interesting article about a pair of lead die trials that have recently come to light from the estate of Cyrus Dallin, the coin's designer. These die trials were unknown to the numismatic community for over 90 years. Mr. Dallin was a colleague of St. Gaudens and did his work during the golden age of U.S. coin design. Here is a link to the article:

 

http://www.coinworld.com/articles/pilgrim-50-die-trials-surface/

 

Enjoy,

Malcolm

 

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[coinsbygary]

My thoughts exactly on the worn out, feels good to get back to some resemblance of normalcy and the "other" coins we enjoy.

Gary

[brg5658]

Cool post Malcolm. BTW, I like your new avatar. Is that a new pick up for you?

-Brandon

[Mokiechan]

Hey Brandon,

Nope not a new pickup, She's just a generic photo I googled that's small enough to serve as an avatar. I like to switch them out fairly often depending on my mood, the time of year, or whatever other weird reason crosses my mind.

 

I would use a picture of the five-coin SAE 25th anniversary set but the mint has the photo images on backorder.

 

 

Later,

Malcolm

[brg5658]

I would use a picture of the five-coin SAE 25th anniversary set but the mint has the photo images on backorder.

 

Love your sense of humor Malcolm!