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A 3 piece Set of 1946 United Nations Monetary Patterns, made in Gold, Silver and Bronze. HK-871,HK-8

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A 3 piece Set of 1946 United Nations Monetary Patterns, made in Gold, Silver and Bronze. HK-871,HK-8
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A 3 piece Set of 1946 United Nations Monetary Patterns, made in Gold, Silver and Bronze. HK-871,HK-873,HK-872. MS-64 NGC.
Conceived by numismatists Abe Kosoff and Hans Schulman as a UN based, universal currency several decades before the Euro. The design was a 1-ducat (U.S. dollar) sized coin, only to be used as the initial pattern to spark interest in the idea. In 1946 the Medallic Art Company of New York, struck only 313 specimens in 23.95 karat Gold, and 1,000 each in Silver and Bronze.
When the UN failed to adopt the plan, the dies were quickly destroyed.

The obverse of the coin portrays flags representing the five nations appointed to the UN Security Counsel at the time.
The design of the reverse is that of US President Franklin Roosevelt’s emblematic vision of the Four Provincial Freedoms: Freedom of Religion, Freedom from Want, Freedom of Speech and Freedom from Fear.
A majority of the gold specimens were melted during the peaking gold market in the 1980s leaving only a couple of dozen or so available.

Ex: Abe Kosoff.