Highly Pleasing 1907 Wire Rim High Relief $20 Saint Gaudens - PCGS MS62 8 Reales These fantasy pieces were struck

These fantasy pieces were struck by Coincraft (Richard Lobel ) in 1984

PCGS Population in MS 62 DMPL : 61

25c - Illinois (Silver)

below • Colorado 1806-1906 •

Highly Pleasing 1907 Wire Rim High Relief $20 Saint Gaudens - PCGS MS62 8 Reales These fantasy pieces were struckThe December 1907 issue of The Numismatist addressed protests in the newspapers concerning the removal of "In God We Trust" from the new High Relief twenty dollar gold pieces designed by Augustus Saint Gaudens. The author disagreed with the protests, arguing that the motto was introduced at a time of great national crisis and was inappropriate during peacetime. The coins are "distinctly Rooseveltian" in character, for both their impressive High Relief