1875 Pattern Liberty by the Seashore Twenty Cents. Judd-1405, Pollock-1548. Rarity-7-. Aluminum. Plain Edge. Proof-64 (PCGS). CAC. OGH--First Generation.Obv: Liberty is seated by the seashore, facing left, an olive branch in her right hand, her left hand resting on the globe inscribed LIBERTY in raised letters. Two flags and a wheat sheaf are behind the portrait, a small steamship on the water in the distance with sails and smoke going in opposite directions. Thirteen stars encircle the border and the date 1875 is below. Rev: An olive wreath encircles the denomination 20 CENTS with the legend UNITED STATES OF AMERICA around the border. This is a bright and beautiful silver white specimen with appreciable field to device contrast on both sides. Judd-1405 is one of the rarer variants of the popular Liberty by the Seashore pattern twenty-cent piece, the uspatterns.com website accounting for only about a half dozen specimens, one of which is impounded in the collection of the Connecticut State Library.From the E. Horatio Morgan Collection. Earlier from our (Bowers and Ruddys) Getty Collection sale, May 1977, lot 656.
