Flowing Hair Liberty Plaster, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, 1977
date: label: date made
content: ca 1977
name: label: artist
content: Gasparro, Frank
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: 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.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
topic: label: Subject
content: Art - Currency
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content: Work and Industry: National Numismatic Collection
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content: Coins, Currency and Medals
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content: Art of Gasparro
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Christina Gasparro Hansen
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2009.0005.001
label: accession number
content: 2009.0005
label: catalog number
content: 2009.0005.001
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Plaster Galvano (Model)
label: Object Name
content: plaster model
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plaster (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 110 mm; 4 5/16 in