JAMES FRASER'S 1952 LINCOLN COIN DESIGNS

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The E-Sylum: Volume 25, Number 9, February 27, 2022, Article 22

JAMES FRASER'S 1952 LINCOLN COIN DESIGNS

Last week Wayne Pearson discussed using the Laura Gardin Fraser eagle design for the reverse of the Washington quarter. Here are his thoughts on her husband James Earle Fraser's 1952 Lincoln Coin designs. Thanks. -Editor

After 113 years of the same Victor D. Brenner design of Lincoln on the one cent coin-it is time for a change. Here is a nice 1952 design by James Fraser.

Fraser also had another design that is more common but less attractive.

The Fraser cent reverse is superior to the shield design we are currently using.

Imagine this as a new one cent combo.

Teddy Roosevelt once called our coins hideously atrocious. I think he would approve of this one.

I don't know about Teddy, but I like it. What do readers think? -Editor

Sources:
Welcome to the Private Collection of Jim & Gayle Halperin (http://www.jhalpe.com/)
1952 Lincoln Cent (https://uspatterns.stores.yahoo.net/19lincen.html)
James Earle Fraser pattern 1952 cent... (https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/728030/james-earle-fraser-pattern-1952-cent)

To read the earlier E-Sylum article, see:
LAURA GARDIN FRASER EAGLE DESIGN (https://www.coinbooks.org/v25/esylum_v25n08a07.html)

Wayne Homren, Editor

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