Heritage thinks thisTrial is unique.....How much......

[MAULEMALL]

Do you think it will go for with the juice.

I love patterns and trials and I think this one is the my new favorite.

Any way since I will never own it and whoever gets it will probably lock it away I thought I would post a link.

[IGWT]

It has been available for the past 7 months since it realized $34,500 (with juice) at the ANR auction in January. I love this piece (as well as Fraser's Indian Head 5c electrotype), and think it's a bargain at that price and more. Out of my league, though.

[MunkyMan95]

I think the rendition of Lincoln on this peice is more lifelike. I also believe that this should have been on our cent!

[RWB]

Mint Director George Roberts also thought this should be on the cent instead of Brenner's reduced-size medal. But, it would have taken and act of congress to change the cent in 1911 or 1912, and Fraser and Roberts concentrated their efforts on the nickel. A more refined version of Fraser's Lincoln was tested at the mint in 1952, but politics and high demand for coin killed the idea.

 

The Fraser "electroshells" (as he called them) are every bit as important as die-struck pattern coins. These little medallic pieces convinced Treasury Secretary MacVeagh to avoid a competition and give the commission to Fraser even though mint engraver Barber had prepared nickel patterns in 1909 and 1910.

[TomB]

I don't like it, it looks like he's dead on the pillow.

[HaydenTubbs]

I don't like it, it looks like he's dead on the pillow.

 

 

yeah,I like the full upper body portrait better...

[IGWT]

-- "I don't like it, it looks like he's dead on the pillow." --

 

I also like G.T. Morgan's portrait of Lincoln on the Illinois Centennial, but I might be in the minority there, too. In any event, my fascination with the Fraser piece has as much to do with its place in numismatic history (as summarized by Roger) as with its aesthetic appeal.

[TomB]

I also like the Morgan work on the Illinois piece, but the size of the head on the present work dwarfs the other dimensions of the coin and doesn't work for me.

[MAULEMALL]

I don't like it, it looks like he's dead on the pillow.

Tom I have to say I think this is,At least in my minds eye, Probably the most Haunting and graphic portrait ever concieved for an american coin.

 

I can see Lincoln looking like this after hearing reports from the war...Sending correspondances to families ... Or just reflecting on the magnitude and scope of his Defense of the union.

 

I think it's a pretty honest piece.