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The E-Sylum: Volume 16, Number 32, August 7, 2013, Article 6

QUIZ ANSWERS: BABIES ON COINS

Last week I wrote:

So here's our quiz from Fred Michaelson: which U.S. coins include an image of a baby? For extra credit, name the baby. One coin should easily come to mind; Fred and I can think of at least three, of which two have names. For collectors outside the U.S., send us images of numismatic items featuring depictions of babies.

Several readers responded. Thanks! -Editor

Pete Smith got all three. He writes:

The first that came to mind is Virginia Dare on the Roanoke Island Half.

Jean-Baptiste Charbonneau, also known as "Pomp." appears on an infrequently seen coin.

The Elgin, Illinois Half has an unnamed Pioneer woman with an unnamed child in her arms.

I would guess many would miss the Oregon Trail Half. In the wagon is a tiny woman holding something that might be a baby.

Paul Horner offered a more comprehensive list. He writes:

1. Oregon Trail Half Dollar, 1926-39. The pioneers wife is holding their baby.
2. Roanoke Island Half Dollar, 1937. The Baby is of course Virginia Dare.
3. Sacagawea Dollar 2000-. The papoose is her son, Jean Baptiste. Not! : the 2003 Missouri Quarter. The 3rd person in the boat is not Sacagawea & Jean Baptiste, it is York, a black slave.
4. Another "possible" is the Nebraska Quarter, 2006. One of the riders in the covered wagon may be holding a baby.
5. Also, though not really a baby but a young child, check out the Panama-Pacific Exposition Half Dollar from 1915.
6. Another young child is standing on the 2004 Iowa Quarter.
7. And that's a real babe on the 1992 XXV Olympiad Half Dollar...
8. But no doubt my favorite buxom babe of all is depicted on the 1804 Silver Dollar!

Greg Adams writes:

Jean-Baptiste on Reverse of The Sacagawea Golden Dollar,

Virginia Dare being held by Ellinor Dare on reverse of Roanoke Island, North Carolina: (1937)

Cherub on obverse of 1915 Pan Pacific Expo Dollar

As a bonus… Arguably a baby in Mothers lap while driving the wagon on reverse of Oregon Trail Commem…

&

since you didn’t specify “Human” babies… we also have the Chicks on the back of both the 2008 Bald eagle commemorative and the current Gold bullion pieces.

Fred adds:

I don't believe that we specified that the babies had to be human.

Babies On Coins

To read the earlier E-Sylum article, see: QUICK QUIZ: BABY COINS (www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v16n31a12.html)

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