1778 So-Called Dollar HK-866c, Elder Confederation

Coin Details

Description

HK-866c joins two vignettes from different Continental Congress notes and leaves out any currency legend. One side is the Confederation scene from the forty-dollar bills of 1778-1779, with the all-seeing eye, the flaming altar, thirteen stars and the ribbon lettered "Confederation"; the other is the eagle seizing a heron from the three-dollar bills, with its Latin border motto "Exitus in Dubio Est." Professor Dickeson used the same Confederation die with the April 11th reverse (HK-866 and HK-866a) and with the Perseverando beaver in copper (HK-866b). Hibler and Kappen list this combination in white metal only, 39 mm, without a DeLorey number. The "Elder" in the page title follows the older attribution, which Thomas K. DeLorey's planchet study shifted to Dickeson.

Cross References

HK-866c; PCGS #643648