Collectors may currently enroll in the U.S. Mint’s subscription program to secure the Matte Finish Ulysses S. Grant Presidential silver medal when it is issued for sale sometime this fall.
Type I double eagle and is recognized well beyond the specialists of the series.
Anthony C. Paquet was born in
Hamburg,
Philadelphia in 1848. In early 1857, he took up contract work for the
Philadelphia Mint before finally being hired on as an assistant engraver. By far his most well-known work is the United States military’s highest decoration for valor, the
Medal of Honor instituted by President
Abraham Lincoln on July 12, 1861. Among his other projects at the Mint were a series of unsigned pattern coins, including a fascinating copper double eagle pattern,
Judd-257. To this day, the reverse dies he prepared for the 1861 double eagles remain the only coin designs that have been positively attributed to Paquet, who left the Mint in 1864.
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