$50 Gold Liberty

What the heck - lets throw it into the mix. OB: design by the famous Augustus St. Gaudens and the less than stellar reverse by Miley Busiek. We had to wait until the 'Buffalo' to get a pure gold bullion coin. This is 91.67%gold, 3% silver & 5.33% copper. Reeded edge with mint in Phily and West Point. These are minted in 1 oz; 1/2 oz; 1/4 oz; $ .1 oz fine weights. These were meant for hoarding!
Hettie Anderson is the known model for the $20 gold piece of 1907> and the Walking Liberty half dollar, she was born in South Carolina in 1873. She relocated to New York City, where she became an artist's model, an uncommon employment at that time for a woman of African-American descent. Anderson posed for the Sherman Monument's figure of Victory in 1897; one of her sittings with Saint-Gaudens was captured by the artist Anders Zorn. Anderson was also the model for the figure of Liberty on Saint-Gaudens' twenty-dollar gold piece.
To read the complete article, see: https://sgnhs.org/augustus-gaudens-cd-html/Models/Hettie.htm