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The famous intaglio cent. These were struck from the hubs which is why Pollock placed these in the Splasher section 3000 number series in his book.

It is believed by some to be part of the experiments by J.T. Barclay to prevent counterfeiting.

The pedigrees are far from clear. The first occurance for one of these was lot 2660 and 1/2 in Haseltine's 1873 Chubbuck sale. Either this or another was part of the 1873 Seavey Descriptive Catalog #150 which became the Parmelee coin. The R. Coulton Davis example sold as lot 1052 in 1890 prior to the Parmelee offering and the 1907 Stickney sale coin (he died in 1894) was purchased by Virgil Brand.

Judd's and Lohr's were pictured on page 101 of the July 1946 edition of Numismatic Review.

The following 3 appear to be different.

1) Pine Tree 9/74, Crouch-Superior 6/77 which is slightly off center.

2) Loye Lauder sale.

3) Stacks-Bowers 2011 ANA - supposedly traceable back to the 1866, illustrated above.

If numbers 1 and 2 do not account for both the Judd and/or Lohr coins and the Stickney coin is not the same as the Chubbuck and R. Coulton Davis examples, then there are more of these.

Photo courtesy of Stacks-Bowers.