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Although listed by Judd as a regular dies trial piece struck in silver, Taxay describes this as a mint error, struck on a dime planchet which your editor believes is the more likely scenario.



Only 2 are confirmed:

1) Heritage 9/08 sale - NGCG6, illustrated above courtesy of Andy Lustig.

2) McCoy (Woodward 5/1864), Cohen (Cogan 10/1875), Roberts, unknown intermediaries, H Chapman 6/6/1898, V. Brand (journal id #18625), Armin Brand, consigned to FCC Boyd on 7/19/40 returned, consigned to Stacks on 7/8/41 who placed it in their August 1941 Opezzo sale, Farouk, Judd, Sloss, Mocatta-79 ANA as MS63 withdrawn, Mocatta-StacksBowers 8/22 - PCGS VF details, tooled, illustrated below courtesy of StacksBowers.



This coin clearly matches the Judd plate in the "Illustrated History of U.S. Coins".