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    10 months ago

    Wow, how old is this… and who’s that woman in the cert.

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      10 months ago

      After making a slightly snide comment, I decided I had to redeem myself by actually finding the answer. It’s surprisingly difficult, but the engraver was likely Charles A Brooks. I cannot determine the name or subject of the engraving itself though, though I’m merely using google searching. The answer is probably sitting in some record books in some archive somewhere.

      His engravings were nearly photorealistic, so a reverse image search from a cropped pic of just the portrait may yield something–his original source potentially.

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      10 months ago

      Lady liberty. She was also on the backside of dimes before 1950 and some half dollar coins.

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        10 months ago

        The hairdo, yes that might resemble Lady Liberty… the face though… no way.