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Message:: [QUOTE="Conder101, post: 4657563, member: 66"]The obverse is by James Longacre and a variation of it first appeared on a series of pattern silver dollars in 1870 (Judd 1008 - 1019, Pollock 1143 - 1154) The design is based on sketched Longacre made back in 1852.  I call it a variation because there were some differences between the 1870 pattetns and the 1873, most noticeable in the positioning of the two "spears".  On the 1870 pattern they point just left of stars 8 and 9.  Liberty's head is also placed higher actually coming between stars 6 and 7. The original design was also used in 1871 on quarters, halves, dollars, ans "Commercial" dollars.  The Commercial dollars were the first patterns in what would eventually become the Trade dollar. In 1872 it was used for patterns of both the Commercial and Trade dollar. In 1873 the modified version was produced and used on pattern Trade dollars exclusively. It was paired with three different reverses for a total of 8 different patterns (J-1293 - 1299, Pollock 1435 - 1441)  A further modified greatly modified version was used for dollar and Trade dollar patterns in 1875 and 1876. The reverse design is unique to 1873 and is found paired with two different obv designs. J-1304 Pollock 1446, and with the obv shown above on J-1310 - 1314 Pollock 1453 - 1457.[/QUOTE]