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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;paddyman98, post: 26107311, member: 44615&quot;]FYI, The Indian Head Cent doesn&#039;t really depict a real Native American <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie12" alt="o_O" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>You can read the story here - <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Head_cent" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Head_cent" rel="nofollow">Indian Head cent - Wikipedia</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Quote &quot;Regardless of who posed for Longacre, the facial features of the &quot;Indian&quot; are essentially Caucasian, meaning that a Caucasian woman wears the headdress of a Native American man. Longacre had, in 1854, designed the three-dollar piece with a female with similar features (also supposedly based on the museum sculpture) but a more fanciful headdress, and adapted that design for the gold dollar. Officials were aware of this artistic license at the time of issue; Snowden, in his November 1858 letter to Cobb, characterizes the two earlier coins as &quot;the artists at the Mint evidently not realizing the absurd incongruity of placing this most masculine attribute of the warrior brave on the head of a woman&quot;. Longacre would not be the last to juxtapose the features of a White woman with an Indian headdress reserved for men; Augustus Saint-Gaudens, for the Indian Head eagle (1907), produced a similar design. Later issues depict more accurate Indians, including Bela Lyon Pratt&#039;s Indian Head gold pieces (1908), the Buffalo nickel (1913) by James Earle Fraser, who worked from Native American models, and the Oregon Trail Memorial half dollar (1926), designed by Fraser and his wife Laura.&quot; Closed quote</p><p><br /></p><p>Here are 2 of my IHC Mint Errors -</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1664830[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1664831[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1664832[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1664833[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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