Owner Comments:
1871 $1 (Indian Princess)
Judd-1138a, Pollock-1276,
Rarity; High R.7 - R.8, PR62
Ex: Farouk
Struck in silver with a reeded edge
Obverse: Chief Engraver James Barton Longacre's Indian Princess motif with 13 stars around the border. Liberty is seated left wearing a Native American headdress, her left hand resting atop a globe inscribed LIBERTY and her right hand supporting a liberty pole. Two flags are behind the portrait, one of which is ornamented with 13 stars, and the date 1871 is below.
Reverse: The same design that the Mint used to strike regular issue 1871 Liberty Seated silver dollars.
Comment:
This is an extremely scarce pattern with probably no more than five pieces known, according to USPatterns.com. This piece's brightness in part derives from having been cleaned, and in part from the deep, flashy mirrors in the fields. The surfaces are mostly brilliant with an occasional reddish-brown smudging of color, mostly seen on the right side of the obverse.
Several earlier examples of the 1138a were mis label in auctions as J1145 which has 22 stars in the flag behind Liberty.
On the May 2009 Heritage auction they included an Abe Kosoff envelope with the Palace Collection printing and card of sale to F.M. Stirling (Previous owner) with Kosoff's signed attestation. Since that 2009 sale of the Stirling collection, subsequent owners disregard this piece of history and the card seems lost now after this piece changed hands several times.
Provenance/Appearances:
From Heritage Jan 2022 FUN Signature® Auction - Orlando / Lot #4275 Prior
- Ex: King Farouk; Palace Collections of Egypt (3/1954), part of lot 1876; (Mis Labelled)
- Abe Kosoff; private sale to Frank M. Stirling, 9/1955;
- Frank M. Stirling Collection (Heritage, 5/2009) /Lot #1428;
- The Jarosi Collection ANA Signature (Heritage, 8/2010) /Lot #3723; and
- Heritage June 2021 Signature Auction / Lot #3246.
A comment on USpattern.com site stated that this piece may have been part of the Woodin-1914 ANS exhibit