Gobrecht Dollar Poll

[Tradedollarnut]

The Gobrecht Dollar is one of the all time finest US coin designs. But which variety is the best - no stars obverse or reverse, stars obverse and reverse, stars obverse with no stars reverse or no stars obverse with stars reverse???

 

 

 

[chrisfuccione]

VOTE NO STARS!!! To much clutter! CHRIS

[BOILER78]

I like the no stars obverse. The reverse doesn't matter.

[swhuck]

Can we retroactively remove the stars?

[michael]

stars on both sides!!!!!!!!!!!! or at the very least on the reverse!!

 

sincerely michael

[BillJones]

I think that the No Stars Liberty Seated coins were the best. It was a nice clean design, almost like a little cameo. When the mint added stars to the half dime and dime the strikes went down hill and the design lost its punch.

 

I like the stars on the reverse. Did you know that 13 of them are larger than the others for the original states? I think that's rather neat.

[shirohniichan]

I prefer stars on both sides. The fields of the no star versions get scuffed too easily, and the design looks more like a medal than a coin.

[BankNote1]

I have never seen a Gobrecht dollar in person, so I didn't vote!

[Sunnywood]

The original design - that having stars on the reverse only - is far and away the most artistically beautiful in my opinion. The stark medallic portrait of Liberty seated in a starless field makes a strong impression, while the beauty of of the eagle flying "onward and upward" through a starlit night sky is one of the finest images in American coinage.

 

The somewhat random distribution of the 13 stars, and the fact that they are not all the same size (to reflect the true nature of the 13 colonies), is an artistic masterstroke, which seems to lend some three-dimensional depth to the visual perspective.

 

Gobrecht dollars are one of my favorite areas in all of numismatics. They are engimatic, and the literature is fraught with misinformation, hearsay and legend regarding these coins. This is truly an area for a dedicated numismatist to study. (Read everything you can find by Jim Gray & Mike Carbonneau if you really want to get into these coins !!!)

 

Sunnywood

 

[aem4162-migration]

null vote...i think they're all beautiful

 

gobrecht ROCKS!

[eggbone]

I believe that the coin appears more elegant without the stars.

[Walkerfan]

Always loved the starry reverse with flying eagle. No stars obverse is unique and classy looking. So that is my combo 4 sure.

[johnny9434]

I like the stars on the reverse. The obverse does not really matter to me.

[JIM F.]

I like them all. On my permanent want list.....along with 1916 SLQ.