Owner Comments:
1871 Pattern Gold Dollar.
Judd-1161, Pollock-1303.
Rarity: High R.7 -8 . PF65BN
Struck in Copper with reeded Edge.
Design: A regular die trial piece of the Type III gold dollar design as adopted in 1856 and utilized for this denomination through 1889 but struck in copper. US Patterns highlight that trial strikes may not be a correct description and believe they were struck for collectors
Comment:
This wonderfully original specimen exhibits iridescent reddish-gold, apricot and powder blue undertones to dominant copper-rose patina. Watery semi-reflective fields support smartly impressed, fully struck devices.
An extremely rare piece by even the strictest standards.
It is noteworthy that both the copper and aluminum examples of this issue show identical flaws, one small low area before Liberty's chin, another below and right of her headdress, from grease or something similar adhering to the obverse die
the website uspatterns.com estimates that only a half dozen or so examples of Judd-1161 are extant.
Provenance:
Stacks August 2019 ANA U.S. Coins Auction Rosemont, IL / Lot 3409
This appears to be the same piece ( comparing photos) to the Stacks 6/16/2010 - C. B. Slade, Jr. Estate Auction where STACKS presumed the Provenance as below: That piece was in an NGC holder
"... This lovely coin, as well as the following two lots, have clearly been together since no later than 1974 (the time of the Pine Tree Auction sale cited below), and may in all probability have been together since before the sale of the King Farouk Collection in 1954. The family of the current consignor bought these three coins in one lot as offered in the Oscar J. Pearl Collection Sale in 1979....
From the Oscar J. Pearl Collection (Bowers and Ruddy, June 28, 1979. Lot 1383); earlier from the Greater New York Numismatic Convention Sale (Paramount, April 29, 1977, Lot 168); earlier from the First Walter Breen Gold Sale (Pine Tree Auctions, March 4, 1974, Lot 434); also almost certainly ex Palace Collection-King Farouk (Sotheby's, February 1954. Lot 1865) ... "
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