1792 (ca. 19th Century) Pattern Eagle-on-Globe Quarter Dollar. Type of Judd-12, Pollock-14. Copper-Plated Lead. About Uncirculated. 214.36 grains. This piece is an exact replication of the Smithsonian specimen of the copper 1792 Eagle on Globe pattern, also known as the Joseph Wright quarter. Wright may have modeled this pattern after a portrait of his wife, Sarah Vandervoort, who, along with Wright, perished in the yellow fever epidemic that swept through Philadelphia in the late summer of 1793.<p>The patina is primarily rich golden-brown, though charcoal-grey can be seen at the highest points where the plating has worn away. About as made in terms of preservation and finer than the examples we sold in our August 2019 and November 2019 sales, comparable to our May 2020:481 specimen. The surfaces are a bit rough, as made, but appear somewhat glossy in hand. A pair of lumps beneath the globe matches those on the CU Forum example listed in <em>1792: Birth of a Nations Coinage</em>, but are not found on the other known copies.<p>It is readily identified as a copy of the Smithsonian specimen by depressions in the left obverse field and at Libertys cheek, along with a distinct raised segment at 1 oclock that can all be found on the genuine piece. While copies of this type are rare, a few examples have come to market in the last few decades and several are listed by Smith, Orosz, and Augsburger in their essential reference <em>1792: Birth of a Nations Coinage</em> (2017). Recently, an electrotype copy of the Smithsonian specimen realized $13,200 in Heritages January 2019 sale of the Weinberg Collection, demonstrating the incredible demand from collectors to fill this hole in their sets. The present copy represents another significant opportunity, granting ownership of an issue that most collectors will never even get to see.