The mint's first experiment with bronze. Photo courtesy of Bowers and Merena. Examples were struck in the following formats. J299/P359. This is a very popular pattern with about 200 known and is very difficult to find with a significant amount of red color. They were struck on both thick 75 grain and thin 49 grain planchets - see below - and usually have medal alignment. Only 2 examples have been confirmed having the normal head over heals coin alignment. The Eckfeldt journal notes the following for two November 1863 strikings of the thin planchet variety. The earliest occurrence for the sale of one of these was lot 759 in Ed Cogan's 6/1864 sale. Examples are also known in pure copper J299A/P359A on both thin and thick planchets. Less than a half dozen are confirmed. Copper-Nickel with reeded edge J300/P360-P362 in both proof & business strike format with probably 3 dozen known overall. The proofs were struck from 2 obverse dies differing in date placement as shown below with the high date first. The high date also has a thinner start to the 1. Examples are as follows: High date proof format J300/P360 with about a dozen known. Low date proof format J300/P361 with about a dozen known. Low date uncirculated format J300/P362 with over a dozen known. According to Judd and Pollock, examples with fake reeding are also known. The notation in Pollock about an 1865 Cogan sale being the first appearance for this is slightly wrong. It actually appeared as lot 1198 in Bangs & Company's April 1865 Joseph N.T. Levick sale. Edge photo courtesy of Rick Snow. Date photos courtesy of Heritage. Eckfeldt journal images courtesy of Alan Meghrig.