Description: Rick's Cafe' Ame'ricainUnique InventoryHassle Free ReturnsQuality Pieces 2007 NGC MS66/7 Abigail/Louisa Mule Multi-Coin set Top Pop RicksCafeAmerican.com If you are not 100% satisfied with your purchase, you can return the product and get a full refund or exchange the product for another one, be it similar or not. You can return a product for up to 14 days from the date you purchased it. Any product you return must be in the same condition you received it and in the original packaging. Please keep the receipt. (2007) NGC HIST MS66RD Abigail / Louisa MULE Coin! Read Description! COLLECTOR'S HEAD'S UP... So Why on Earth is This Coin Priced at a Premium? Well - because... It's most likely one of the few, if not the only, First Issue Certified setsA set with the Abigail / Louisa Mule Coin?The set Graded at MS66 / MS67 Let Me Explain: This coin is not only special because after almost 11 years only 19 certified with PCGS and 21 with NGC, and out of that population only 5 have this grade (I owned 2), this is one of the few, and certainly, one of the only sets up for sale in this category.. This is why the premium! BACKGROUND Beginning in 2007, the U.S. Mint began honoring our nation’s First Spouses by issuing one-half-ounce $10 gold coins and 1-5/16-inch bronze medals featuring their images in the order that they served as First Spouse. The medals bear the likeness of the gold coins except they do not contain a denomination and mottoes required by law to be a coin. The obverse of the Abigail Adams medal was designed and sculpted by Joseph Menna, U.S. Mint sculptor-engraver and was inspired by Gilbert Stuart’s portrait of Abigail Adams. The reverse, was designed by Thomas Cleveland, U.S. Mint Artistic Infusion Program master designer, and sculpted by Phebe Hemphill, Mint sculptor-engraver. It features Abigail Adams writing the famous words, “Remember the Ladies,” to her husband when he was in the Second Continental Congress drafting the Declaration of Independence. The obverse, of the Louisa Adams medal was designed by Artistic Infusion Program master designer Susan Gamble, and sculpted by Hemphill. A portrait of Louisa Adams circa 1816 inspired it. The reverse was designed and sculpted by Menna and depicts Louisa Adams with her young son, Charles, on an arduous journey from St. Petersburg, Russia, across much of Europe to join her husband in Paris. The mule error shows the Abigail obverse paired with the reverse depicting Louisa with Charles. What is interesting about this mule is that it contains a reverse design that was not officially released until 2008 on a medal contained in a set first offered for sale in 2007. It suggests that the Mint either had the reverse dies ready for use by 2007 and one of them was picked up and set into a coining press in error in 2007, or that the Mint was still striking medals for the 2007 sets in 2008 and made the mistake then. No mintage estimates are available; however, after 10 years, there are only 19 certified with PCGS and 21 with NGC. The 2007 “Four-Medal Sets” are now listed on the Mint’s Web site as sold out. This will be the second mule reported on an official Mint medal in the past several years. In January 2006, Gilkes credited Dr. Walter Chinoy with finding a Rutherford B. Hayes medal bearing a reverse die intended for the Ulysses S. Grant Presidential medal.
Price: 3850 USD
Location: Corona del Mar, California
End Time: 2024-09-09T10:04:12.000Z
Shipping Cost: 9.85 USD
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Restocking Fee: No
Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 14 Days
Refund will be given as: Money Back
Grade: MS 66
Certification Number: 2473056-002
Mint Location: Philadelphia
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Circulated/Uncirculated: Uncirculated
Coin: Presidential spouse
Certification: NGC
Composition: Bronze
