Click to enlargeJ145/P173

This is the most polished of the 4 gold dollar pattern designs of this year.



Examples were struck as follows:

Gold J145/P173 with about 3 dozen believed to exist. These are known on both thick planchets weighing about 32 grains and thin planchets weighing about 25 grains. Many of these are restrikes struck from the late 1850s onward including all of the off-metal examples. Examples are known with a die crack at the right side of the first L in Dollar and were struck after 1860 as noted below. Later examples also have a die crack at 9:00 cutting through the first pair of leaves and the last examples also have a crack at 5:00.

Silver J146/P174 on both thick and thin planchets with fewer than 10 confirmed, of which 5 are in museums. Some of these were struck using previously struck dimes as planchet stock. The Queller example was struck over an 1860 dime and had no reverse die breaks as illustrated below courtesy of Stacks-Bowers. To see all available images, click here.



Copper J147 & J148B/P175 with over a dozen known. The brass example, ex Lohr, was really copper. Virtually all examples were struck from the cracked state of the reverse die. To see all available images, click
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Copper-nickel J148/P176 with just over a dozen known. These do not appear to have any die cracks. To see all available images, click
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Nickel J148A/P177. This has not been analyzed and may actually be a misdescription of a copper-nickel example.

Photo courtesy of Superior.