Owner Comments:
1869 5c
Judd-683, Pollock-762
Rarity: Low R.7
Ex: HW Bass Collection.
Struck in nickel with a plain edge.
Obverse: Resembles the adopted three cent nickel design on a larger planchet. Liberty faces left and is wearing a coronet inscribed LIBERTY. The legend, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, is around with the date, 1871, below...
Reverse: The reverse displays a large V over a wide ornamented frame, IN GOD WE TRUST is above in tiny letters. An ornate shield is overlaid by a large Roman numeral V with the motto, IN GOD WE TRUST, above.
Comment:
Brilliant throughout and impressively mirrored for a nickel striking. The centers show softness of detail, either from die opposition or the hardness of the nickel composition, or both. Fewer than a dozen examples are believed known of this pattern.
Weight: 77.0 grains. Diameter: 21.8 mm. Die alignment: 180°.
Provenance:
Ex: Purchased by Harry Bass, Jr. from Abe Kosoff on August 3, 1971; Bass I (Bowers and Merena, 5/99), lot 1048: Long Beach Signature (Heritage, 6/2005), lot 7417,Heritage 2017 April CSNS - Chicago / Lot #5099