Liberty Wearing Teutonic Eagle-Topped Helmet Dollar Design (obverse)
- Description (Brief)
- Here Gasparro drew a view of Freedom from the bronze statue on the dome of the United States Capitol, originally designed by Thomas Crawford in 1863. Gasparro placed the allegorical figure into a mock-up for a new coin design. As the Mint chief engraver, he was always looking for new ways to use American iconography on coins. The large number of drawings that were preserved in many numismatic collections are evidence that Gasparro experimented and created many more designs for coins than were actually struck.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- sketch
- date made
- ca 1965
- artist
- Gasparro, Frank
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- Measurements
- sheet: 26.6 cm x 20.3 cm; 10 1/2 in x 8 in
- overall: 16.1 cm; 6 5/16 in
- place made
- United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
- ID Number
- 2009.0005.020
- catalog number
- 2009.0005.020
- accession number
- 2009.0005
- subject
- Coins, Currency and Medals
- Art - Currency
- Art of Gasparro
- See more items in
- Political History: National Numismatic Collection
- Art of Gasparro
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
- Credit Line
- Christina Gasparro Hansen
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