What a reflection! The slab has a scratch and it picked up a light reflection on the camera but that’s nothing compared to the frosted coin and the brilliant field. A 2011-S Proof 69, Deep Cameo James Garfield First Strike Presidential Dollar graded and slabbed by PCGS.
I have a number of Presidential and Native American coins that have a similar look. Yours is beautiful.
I put together a Dansco set with the proofs and it is the proofs that takes that album to the next level.
I only have four of them. One was posted yesterday, this one, and two more to post. All are stunning! I understand what your both saying and I agree.
All I have Garfield is a campaign token. Looks better now after some acetone baths but here’s the way found in LCS junk box last year. I’ll take some updated pics tomorrow
That's a cool token. Garfield was from Ohio. Growing up in poverty, he worked for a while driving mules towing barges along the Ohio and Erie canal which connected Lake Erie to the Ohio River. Although he only worked the canal for a short time, the experience was used to his advantage during his political career, showing him as a hard working American success story. Portions of the canal and the towpath still exist and have been restored and repurposed as recreational areas.
Personally, I quite enjoyed collecting the Presidential $1 coins. Besides, I think the U.S. Mint did an excellent job with most of the likenesses especially obscure Presidents such as Taylor, Pierce, Johnson, Garfield, and Cleveland. However, others such as Washington, Jackson, Lincoln, and Kennedy were a bit too derivative, in my opinion. Speaking of President Garfield, here's a National Bank Note from my collection bearing his likeness, an ironic combination considering his steadfast opposition to paper currency.
I forgot to mention that James A. Garfield was the 20th President of the United States. He took office on 3/4/1881 and less than 6 months later he was the second President to be assassinated. He died on 9/19/1881. Abraham Lincoln was the first followed by James Garfield, which occurred 16 years later. Then 20 years later William McKinley was assassinated in his 4th years of office. 62 years later John F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1963. He was near the end of his third year in office.
