The 1865 regular dies trial piece. These are believed to have been deliberately struck for sale to collectors. Examples were struck as follows: Copper J413/P484 with about 2 dozen known. According to Brian Koller, 2 obverse dies were used, one the same obverse die as the regular issue proofs and exhibit prominent repunching and the second and considerably rarer obverse die exists with a high date and no evidence of date repunching. Oroide J414/P485 golden colored. One of these was tested and came back as 88.99% copper, 5.83% zinc and 5.18% tin. These seem to have been struck from business strike dies. Testing is recommended on these to see if they are truly oroide. We are aware of the following 3 or 4 examples: To see images of this and the next, click here. 1) Denali-Heritage 1/11 FUN, Heritage 10/11, StacksBowers 3/12, Legend Auctions 3/20 - PCGS64 2) Heritage 1/03 FUN - PCGS64 3) B/M 3/98, Superior 5/99, Teletrade 2/7/2000, Rau-Heritage 4/18, Bourne - PCGS63, illustrated below 4) StacksBowers 1/11, StacksBowers 4/11 - NGC65, this coin has the look of a regular toned nickel piece and thus this attribution is tentative Aluminum J414A/P486 which appears to be unique with only the Woodside (4/1892 as J412/P483), Curtis-Mehl 1/1942, Winthrop-B/R 9/75, Ivy 8/80 ANA, Simpson-Heritage 1/2021, M. Bourne - PCGS66 example known. It is illustrated below courtesy of Mike Bourne. Photo courtesy of American Numismatic Rarities.