Click to enlargeJ1260/P1402

Although described as a regular dies trial piece in aluminum, these were actually deliberately struck for sale to collectors as part of complete sets.



Examples were struck as follows:

Nickel J1260A/P1401 struck on a broad planchet slightly overweight 32.4 grain planchet ex Simpson-Heritage 4/21 - PCGS65, reslabbed now as a broadstruck Mint error as opposed to being a deliberate die trial as unlike the next 2 which were struck from proof dies, it is a business strike and the broad rims appear uneven all the way around. The illustration is from PCGS although the coin is no longer imaged on the pcgs.com/coinfacts website. For more on this piece, click here.



Copper J1260/P1402 with only 2 confirmed as follows: To see available images of this and the next, click here.

1) Winthrop-B/R /975, Paramount 10/86, Stacks 9/94, Heritage 1/99 FUN as PCGS65RED, ANR 7/03 as PCGS65RED, Simpson, Bourne - PCGS67RB, illustrated above, click on the thumbnail image to enlarge

2) Harte-B/R 3/81, Denali, Legend, Heritage 1/11 FUN - PCGS64RB

One of these is ex Brenner-1914 ANS, Brand, and the other ex Woodin-Newcomer.

Aluminum J1261/P1403 with only 2 confirmed as follows:

1) Winthrop-B/R /975, Paramount 10/86, Stacks 11/07, Simpson-Heritage 9/20, Bourne - PCGS64

2) Harte-B/R 3/81, unknown intermediates, Stacks 11/14 as PCGS65, Heritage 4/15 as PCGS65, Legend 3/20 as PCSG65, Bourne - PCGS66

One of these is ex Brenner-1914 ANS, Brand, and the other ex Woodin-Newcomer.

The Lohr collection had examples of both.

Photo courtesy of Heritage.