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Goloid alloy (5.26% gold, 84.74 silver, 10.00 copper). Reeded edge. Metric weight system.
Obverse with a head of Liberty to left, Phrygian cap and agricultural flora atop her head.
Reverse with UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 100 CENTS, and a starry circle. A splendid gem
Proof with frosty motifs and mirrored fields that form a pleasing cameo contrast (though
this is not mentioned on the holder). Mainly brilliant silver with whispers of pale
champagne iridescence on both sides. An altogether pleasing coin that was deemed suitable
for inclusion in the Louis E. Eliasberg Collection, and a coin that will be a highlight in
the next collection it adorns.The goloid alloy consisted of 24 parts silver for every part
gold by weight, and several different varieties of pattern goloid dollars were struck
circa 1878-1880. The variety offered here is the "metric” weight variety; another
variety is known as the "English” variety, with the reverse of that issue bearing
the weights at the center in grains rather than grams (as offered in the present
specimen). From Auctions by Bowers and Merena, Inc.’s sale of the Louis E. Eliasberg,
Sr., Collection, May 1996, Lot 287; Earlier from the Chapman Brothers’ sale of the’ M.
A. Brown Collection, April 1897, Lot 64; to J. M. Clapp; Clapp Estate, 1942; to Louis E.
Eliasberg, Sr. |
