Longacre's French head design combined with the regular reverse die. Your editor, Saul Teichman, has always questioned whether this was designed by Longacre or Paquet as the 1859 half dollar patterns used Paquet's punches in the legend "United States of America". Kurt Brintzenhofe notes a July 1897 article in the American Journal of Numismatics on U.S. Assay Commission Medals by Edmund J. Cleveland also attributes the French head used on the 1860 to Paquet. These are probably restrikes struck circa 1866-7 based on the copper example illustrated below. If they are, they were probably struck from the same reverse die used on the 1839 J97-J98/P107-P108 and/or the unique J538/P602. Examples were struck as follows: To see images of all of these, click here. Silver J243/P299 with only 3 or 4 known including: 1) Stacks 3/73, Queller-Heritage 1/09 as NGC63, Heritage 10/15 – PCGS63 2) Lohr?, Cox-Stacks 4/62?, B/M 9/88, Akers-Auction 89, Superior 5/90, Morgan-StacksBowers 8/19 ANA – PCGS63 3) Judd?, Superior 8/75 ANA, Bass-B/R 5/99, Teletrade 3/13/200?, Heritage 5/23 – PCGS63, illustrated above, click on the thumbnail to enlarge Copper J244/P300 with 3 confirmed as follows: 1) Mitchelson-CSL 2) Woodin, Newcomer, Olsen-Mehl 11/44, Farouk, B/R 8/78 ANA, cleaned and lacquered 3) Nagy 10/3/07, Brand (journal id #40589), Stacks 11/54 Anderson-Dupont sale, Stacks Goldschmidt sale, Morris Evans-Bowers and Merena 8/98, Stacks 1/07, Bowers and Merena 2009 ANA, Simpson-Heritage 1/21 - PCGS65RB with an incused head of Washington on it as illustrated below. Photo courtesy of Stacks. Incomplete obverse splashers in white metal JA1859-2/P3212 and JA1859-3/P3215 are also known.