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	Bela Lyon Pratt: Overlooked Designer of Two Underrated Coins
		Pratt, too, was from Boston, and he had become acquainted with Bigelow through their mutual involvement in art circles there.
		Pratt was born on Dec. 11, 1867 in Norwich, Conn., to lawyer George Pratt and his deeply religious wife, Sarah.
		Though frail and prone to illness, Pratt proved to be a prolific worker.
	www.pcgs.com /articles/article1612.chtml (1990 words)

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		Pratt, a Boston sculptor, was a gifted artist with a first-rate reputation when he was commissioned in 1908 to redesign the nation’s two smallest gold coins, the half eagle (or $5 gold piece) and quarter eagle (or $2.50 gold piece).
		For the most part, Pratt’s two coins were accepted without question by the public, unusual appearance notwithstanding – though relatively few man-in-the-street Americans had occasion to use gold coinage in their everyday transactions at a time when a $5 gold piece equated to two days’ pay for much of the populace.
		Bela Lyon Pratt’s two gold coins served Americans well, if on a limited basis, during one of this nation’s most fascinating periods – a period that encompassed World War I, the Roaring Twenties and ultimately the start of the Great Depression.
	www.jeffersoncoinandbullion.com /article55.shtml (1796 words)

	Sculptor.Org - Bela Lyon Pratt (1867-1917) - Web Portrait
		George Pratt was born on 12 OCT 1832 in Weymouth, Norfolk Co., MA.
		2288 iv.Bela Lyon Pratt was born on 11 DEC 1867.
		Pratt, Bela Lyon (1867-1917), U.S. sculptor, pupil of Saint-Gaudens and Chapu; statues of John Winthrop, Phillips Brooks, Nathan Hale (Yale campus); figures for main entrance of Library of Congress.
	www.sculptor.org /Sculptors/ByName/BelaLyonPratt.htm (432 words)

	A History and Interpretation of Bela Lyon Pratt's Indian Designs
		Still, the designs of Pratt deserve to be studied as important in their own right.
		Bela Lyon Pratt was a pupil of Augustus Saint-Gaudens and was born on December 11, 1867 in Norwich Connecticut.
		Pratt's model remains unknown by name or tribe, but he wears a war headdress far more opulent than any of the prior issues.
	www.pcgs.com /articles/article1826.chtml (1652 words)

	Bela Lyon Pratt Online
		Bela Lyon Pratt at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. Clara and Lizzie, Daughters of Frederick and Elizabeth Shattuck, 1893
		Search AllPosters for reproductions of works by Bela Lyon Pratt
		All images and text on this Bela Lyon Pratt page are copyright 1999-2005 by John Malyon/Artcyclopedia, unless otherwise noted.
	www.artcyclopedia.com /artists/pratt_bela_lyon.html (137 words)

	Bela Lyon Pratt ( - ) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
		HonorÈ Daumier, Le chemin de fer de Lyon - EmbarcadËre spÈcial des nourrices de Bourgogne.
		John Wootton, The Lyon and the Cub, plate for Fable XIX on page 73 in the book Fables by Mr.
		Jane Harris, winner of the 2002 Jerwood Drawing Prize, showed extensively throughout Europe and is having her first solo show in US at Kontainer Gallery in April 2004 and her first museum show is scheduled in 2005 at Aldrich Museum, Connecticut...
	wwar.com /masters/p/pratt-bela_lyon.html (1827 words)

	The Quarter Eagles of Bela Lyon Pratt
		The design for the new quarter eagle ($2 1/2) gold piece of 1908 was quite a departure from the typical United States coin design.
		Designer Bela Lyon Pratt, taking inspiration from ancient Greek and Egyptian coins, modeled the central devices in incuse rather than bas relief everyone was so familiar with.
		The set used to illustrate this e-Exhibit is in an affordable collector grade of AU for all but the key 1911 D, which is in EF.
	www.coins-n-medals.com /Exhibits/pratt/pratt.html (221 words)

	US Gold Coinage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Designed by America's most talented sculptors and engravers, James B. Longacre, Christian Gobrecht, Bela Lyon Pratt and Augustus Saint Gaudens: the gold coins of the United States have became the most sought after coins ever minted.
		In 1908 the incuse design of Bela Lyon Pratt was adopted for both the Quarter and Half Eagle coins.
		Designed by Bela Lyon Pratt, the new Quarter Eagle Type was a radical departure from the way coins were minted.
	www.easternnumismatics.com /gold.html (712 words)

	CoinLife.com - $5 Indian Type
		Roosevelt’s friend, Dr. William S. Bigelow, suggested making coins with devices sunk below the fields, somewhat like some ancient Egyptian coins, and convinced sculptor Bela Lyon Pratt to submit models for the $2½ quarter eagle and $5 half eagle.
		Pratt’s designs were forwarded to Mint Engraver Charles E. Barber, who spent several months delaying the coin’s progress and modifying the designs.
		The first half eagles left the Mint in late 1908 and were immediately attacked by critics who complained that the coin’s reverse relief would attract dirt.
	www.coinlife.com /usgold_indian5.htm (276 words)

	$5 Indian Gold Coins
		Therefore, when his good friend Dr. William S. Bigelow proposed his protégé, sculptor Bela Lyon Pratt, to design a new issue of $2.50 and $5.00 gold pieces, Roosevelt readily agreed.
		Pratt, his friend, recommended the new gold coins be "incuse" with designs recessed into the metal rather than raised.
		On the reverse, Pratt designed a beautiful, Bald standing Eagle with the denomination and the standard legends of American currency.
	www.goldinfo.net /5ingolcoin.html (434 words)

	Virtual Museum - 1911 INDIAN HEAD QUARTER EAGLE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Bigelow urged Roosevelt to consider U.S. coinage with such relief, and the effervescent president -- always receptive to new ideas -- embraced the unusual concept at once and pressed for its implementation on the two remaining gold coins due for updates.
		At Bigelow's suggestion, the task of designing the coins was assigned to another Bostonian, sculptor Bela Lyon Pratt.
		His designs, identical on both coins, show an Indian brave in a war bonnet on the obverse and an eagle in repose on the reverse.
	www.goldrushgallery.com /vmuseum/gtm11.html (314 words)

	AmericanHeritage.com / Only One Life, But Three Hangings
		In 1914 the original of this statue was erected in front of Nathan’s college dormitory, Connecticut Hall, on the Old Campus at Yale, where he received his H.A. degree in 1773.
		Created by the noted American sculptor Bela Lyon Pratt, the stylized, slightly larger-than-life-size design was based on contemporary descriptions of Hale, of whom no portrait existed.
		After the new statue was made and sent to Andover, the plaster cast was destroyed in a fire at the foundry.
	www.americanheritage.com /articles/magazine/ah/1973/5/1973_5_100.shtml (836 words)

	Public art at Yale - Nathan Hale
		Hale’s youth and defiant last words, inscribed on the statue’s base, made him a national hero, and his legend remained powerful over a century after his death when alumni donated this monument.
		Unable to afford the renowned Gilded Age sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens, they commissioned the piece from his former assistant, Bela Pratt, who had studied at the Yale School of the Fine Arts under John Ferguson Weir.
		Combining dignity and beauty with a traditional martyr pose, Pratt’s statue stands beside Connecticut Hall, where Hale lived as a student.
	www.yale.edu /publicart/hale.html (135 words)

	Virtual Museum - 1908 INDIAN HEAD HALF EAGLE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The notion of minting such coins was suggested to President Roosevelt by William Sturgis Bigelow, a Boston physician who greatly admired incuse-relief Egyptian works of art at his city's Museum of Fine Arts.
		At his urging, Boston sculptor Bela Lyon Pratt was commissioned to prepare new designs -- designs using this technique -- for the $5 and $2.50 gold pieces, both of which were long overdue for revamping.
		The coins were introduced in 1908, the year after Saint-Gaudens' two gold pieces made their debuts.
	www.goldrushgallery.com /vmuseum/gtm22.html (319 words)

	$2.50 Indian Quarter Eagle Gold Coins
		Fortunately, in late 1907 Roosevelt was able to contact one of Saint-Gaudens' students, Bela Lyon Pratt, and commission him to redesign the $2.50 and $5.00 denominations.
		A year later, the numismatic community was surprised by Pratt's innovative Indian design, which featured the legends and motifs incused rather than raised on the coin.
		In other words, as a departure from earlier United States coinage, the devices were recessed into the surface of the coin.
	www.blanchardonline.com /blanchard_products/twofify_indian.php (279 words)

	United States Rare Coin & Bullion Reserve (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The $2½ Indian gold coin featured Bela Lyon Pratt's unusual incuse design that ran famously against years of coin minting tradition.
		Pratt's design features an Indian brave wearing a headdress over which stands the word "Liberty" and 13 colony stars.
		A majestic, standing eagle is displayed on the reverse.
	www.usmoneyreserve.com /2.5_indian.html (207 words)

	1929 Gold Indian (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Unlike every other U.S. coin design, Pratt's “Indian Head” is incuse — meaning that the sculpted Indian is sunken into the surface of the coin, rather than being raised above it.
		Designer Bela Lyon Pratt's portrait of a strong Indian brave in war bonnet is incused into the gleaming obverse, along with 13 stars and the motto LIBERTY.
		On the reverse, the gleaming majestic eagle grasps an olive branch, symbolizing peace, against a frosted field.
	www.asseenontvnetwork.com /vcc/ncm/goldindian/127556 (602 words)

	$2 1/2 Indian Head Gold
		Designer Bela Lyon Pratt created a magnificent Indian head gold coin design which broke with centuries of minting tradition.
		Since the ancient Greek days, coins were minted with raised features.
		But Pratt's new designs were uniquely embossed down into the metal.
	www.accentcoins.com /2indian.html (277 words)

	Bela Lyon Pratt on artnet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Find works of art, auction results & sale prices of artist Bela Lyon Pratt at galleries and auctions worldwide.
		Find unknown or rarely seen works by important artists
		sample: Here are the top 3 of 6 past sale results for Bela Lyon Pratt:
	www.artnet.com /artist/650371/bela-lyon-pratt.html (136 words)

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