1775 So-Called Dollar HK-865d, Continental Eagle & Heron

Coin Details

Description

Two vignettes from Continental paper money meet on HK-865d, and neither side carries a currency total. One is the eagle seizing a heron, circled by "Exitus in Dubio Est," Latin for "The End Is in Doubt," from the three-dollar bills of 1775 to 1777. The other is the beaver gnawing a palm tree in a stream, with mountain peaks and trees behind it and "Perseverando" around, from the six-dollar bills of 1775 to 1778. Professor Dickeson, who chose both images, combined each of them elsewhere with a dated reverse, as on HK-865 and HK-863. Hibler and Kappen list this pairing in white metal only, 39 mm, with no DeLorey number. Thomas K. DeLorey's study of the planchets used across this group is what moved it from Thomas L. Elder's name to Dickeson's.

Cross References

HK-865d; PCGS #643640