Standing Liberty Reverse
by Fred Larucci
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8.500 x 11.000 inches
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Title
Standing Liberty Reverse
Artist
Fred Larucci
Medium
Drawing - Graphite Pencils - 96lb. Canson Thick Sheet Stock Board Paper
Description
(2015) The Night Gallery: Circulated �Standing Liberty Quarter (Reverse)� 1920 United States currency Coin - Illustration No.95, Hand Drawn in Graphite on 96lb. Canson Bristol Thick Board sheet stock. Pencils used (6h,4h,h,b,3b,5b,6b), Total drawing time, 45 hours. This is the 5th United States coin in my coin series and the 15th overall.
�2015 The Night Gallery
The Standing Liberty Quarter was a 25-cent coin struck by the United States Mint from 1916-1930. It succeeded the Barber quarter, which had been minted since 1892. Featuring the Goddess of Liberty on one side and an eagle in flight on the other, the coin was designed by Hermon Atkins MacNeil. In 1915, Director of the Mint Robert W. Woolley set in motion efforts to replace the Barber dime, quarter and half dollar, as he mistakenly believed that the law required new designs. MacNeil submitted a militaristic design that showed Liberty on guard against attacks. In circulation, the coin�s date wore away quickly, and Mint engravers modified the design to address the issue in 1925. The Standing Liberty quarter was discontinued in 1931, a year in which no quarters were struck. By Congressional act the Washington quarter, featuring the first President�s profile was introduced in 1932 to celebrate the bicentennial of his birth.
(CC) 2015 - This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License.
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