Object Details
- artist
- Gasparro, Frank
- Description (Brief)
- This Flowing Hair Liberty plaster model, designed by U.S. Mint Chief Engraver Frank Gasparro, is an enlarged prototype for the "new mini dollar" of 1978. Gasparro's allegorical Liberty displays a free-spirited young woman similar to the design of Benjamin Franklin's Libertas Americana Medal in 1783 and the cents of 1793—1808. Although the Flowing Hair Dollar design was Gasparro's first choice for the new dollar coin, Congress rejected this design.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Christina Gasparro Hansen
- ca 1977
- ID Number
- 2009.0005.001
- accession number
- 2009.0005
- catalog number
- 2009.0005.001
- Object Name
- Plaster Galvano (Model)
- plaster model
- Physical Description
- plaster (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 110 mm; 4 5/16 in
- place made
- United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
- See more items in
- Work and Industry: National Numismatic Collection
- Coins, Currency and Medals
- Art of Gasparro
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Art - Currency
- Record ID
- nmah_1358695
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ac-bfe0-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
