Owner Comments:
1869 1C
Judd-1769, Pollock-1985
Rarity: High R.6 PF62 CAC Endorsed
Struck in aluminum with a plain edge.
Obverse: The obverse has a shield draped with a ribbon inscribed LIBERTY, poles in the background topped with a cap and an eagle. E PLURIBUS UNUM is placed at the top border with the date below, seven stars left and six right.
Reverse: The reverse has a single olive branch curved around 1 CENT with UNITED STATES OF AMERICA around.
Comment:
Fully brilliant and highly lustrous with satiny silver-gray surfaces with some minor blemishes of various types that limit the grade.
Bowers writes in 1999 “ This issue is quit significant as the latest date readily obtainable pattern of denomination. A long time ago in the 1950’s Bowers had acquired a cache of 1896 pattern cents and five-cent pieces from Robert K. Botsford, of Nescopek, PA, who obtained them from the estate of William H. Woodin (who lived not far away in Berwick, PA).
Called aluminum for sake of brevity, Pollock-1985 is actually found in many variations of the metal. In his United States Patterns and Related Issues, Andrew Pollock noted the following compositions for the type, none of which can be told from any of the others without extensive elemental analysis: (1). 100% aluminum; (2). 98.78% aluminum, .40% iron, .45% silicon, .37% cop¬ per; (3). 96.94% aluminum, .65% iron, .38% silicon, 2.03% copper; and (4). 96.74% aluminum, .45% iron, .31% silicon, 1.94% copper, .56% manganese
Provenance/ Appearances:
Private Sale 2/2020 priors:
-From The Jones Beach Collection, Heritage Jan 2007 Orlando, FL (FUN) / Lot #1629;
-From the William H. and Pauline M. Bonn Birth Year/Memorial Collection. Stacks and Bowers Aug 2012 Philadelphia ANA / Lot #12137;
- Also believe to be from Bowers and Merena Sept 1999 (The Collections of Emil Voigt, Sr. & Dr. Wallace Lee) /Lot #20
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Aluminum Set
