The Wilkison-Trompeter-Morse example of the St Gaudens Ultra High Relief. This is considered by many to be the most beautiful coin ever struck by this country. This used to be J1778 in earlier editions. Photo courtesy of Heritage. It was the first individual pattern coin to sell for over $1,000,000 at auction. Some 19 or 20 are known in the following 4 formats: To see all available, click here. J1907/P2001 with the edge lettered E*P*L*U*R*I*B*U*S*U*N*U*M* as used on the unique 1906 double eagle J1773/P1992 and illustrated below courtesy of Stacks. As you can see from the image, the edge reads with the obverse face up. 3 examples are believed to have been struck of which only 2 examples, both apparently carried around as pocket pieces, are currently accounted for: 1) ex Sotheby's 12/92, Stacks 3/05, Southern collection, Stacks 7/08, Stacks 11/09, Heritage 8/12 as NGCAU58, Bonhams 12/14 - PCGSAU58. 2) ex Sotheby's 6/95. J1908/P2000 with plain edge with only the ex Captain North set piece known. The reverse die broke at 8:30 - as shown below in Stacks Captain North Sales Brochure - which stopped the creation of these pieces for a brief time. Research by Roger Burdette in the Mint Archives has noted that, at the time the reverse die cracked, 3 complete gold, 1 complete lead and at least 3 partially struck pieces in addition to this virtually complete piece had been struck. This specific piece is actually a mint error as opposed to being a deliberate pattern. The ultra high relief required 7 strikings from the die to bring up the detail. The early strikings for each piece were done using a plain edge collar. The lettered edge collar was only employed on the very last striking. This example never received that last striking with the lettered edge collar probably due to the reverse die breaking. Electrotypes showing the increased detail after each striking are in the American Numismatic Society and can be seen in later editions of Judd through the 7th edition. J1909/P2002 with edge lettered E*PLURIBUS*UNUM*********** which reads with the reverse up. The dozen listed below are believed to represent different pieces. 1-3) Smithsonian, one from the Lilly collection. 4) Fecht, ANS 5) Mitchelson, CSL 6) Norweb, Bowers & Merena 1/1997, Dwight Manley, Ira & Larry Goldberg Coins & Collectibles 5/1999, Lot 885, Ira & Larry Goldberg Coins & Collectibles 2/2003, Lot 2178 as PCGS68, Heritage 2/21 - NGC68 7) Kelly 56 ANA, Wilkison, Auction 80, Trompeter, Morse-Heritage 11/05, StacksBowers 6/12, StacksBowers 5/15, Hansen - PCGS69 8) Yale University, Empire Coin. Kreisberg/Schulman 2/1961, Lot 1417, Stack’s 10/1985, Lot 822 9) Stack’s auction, June 1979, Lot 781 10) Ullmer-Stack's, May 1974, Lot 546 11) Hein family, Heritage 1/07, Simpson, Elite collection 12/21 via Ian Russell - PCGS68 12) Browning-Sotheby’s/Stack’s 10/2001 Lot 50. There are pedigrees for other pieces which have not been plate matched including Bell-Stack’s 12/1944 and Kern-Mehl 5/1950. Either or both may represent the Lilly-Smithsonian example. J1909/P2003 with edge lettered as above, E*PLURIBUS*UNUM***********, but this one reads with the obverse up - the so-called inverted edge. As those struck with the 1906 edge read with the obverse up, we suspect that these were actually the first ones struck. The following 5 are confirmed. 1) Farouk, Kosoff, Bowers and Merena 11/85 2) Captain North set, NERCA 11/80, Superior Auction 85. 3) Bloomfield, Sotheby's 12/96, Southern collection - PCGS68 4) Elder 11/1920, J. H. Clapp, Eliasberg, Bass, HWBRF-Heritage 8/23 - PCGS69 5) Saint-Gaudens family piece, 1910 and 1914 ANS exhibits, Homer Saint-Gaudens, private collections, Heritage 1/15 FUN, Tyrant collection with ASG etched on the edge, for identification purposes, as shown below courtesy of Heritage - NGC68/PCGS68 Note: Although Pollock gave these separate numbers, we believe that the Mint did not care how the edge collar was set up when striking these and thus we have kept them under one Judd number. For additional information on these pieces, click here. Note: Charles Barber owned 8 of these pieces. To learn more, click here and the Col Green collection had 4 according to F.C.C. Boyd's appraisal sold in a 2012 Kolbe-Fanning book auction. J1910/P2004 struck in lead. Only a single example is known. This used to be J1778A in earlier editions. Photos courtesy of Stacks and Heritage.