Numismatik-Cafe

Teresa Caferelli had been a young Italian girl when she immigrated to the United States, and was a young woman of 21, and newly married to DeFrancisci when he designed the Peace dollar using her as a model. Her Italian heritage is the connection here, of course....

The design of France’s iconic “Sower” 1-franc derives from a medallic sketch Roty executed in 1886, using a young Italian girl named Rosalinda Pesce as a model.

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Anbei zwei Bilder von Mrs DeFrancisi, eines aus den Jahren, in denen der Friedensdollar enstand, das andere aus dem Jahr 1971.

Thanks for these two pictures. The second one especially, of her much later in life, commands a very long look. (I notice it's attributed to 1971, the year the Eisenhower dollar--first dollar coin since the Peace dollar had departed in '35--was introduced.) Again, thanks for the picture. Really gave me pause.

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