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The regular dies trial piece. The copper examples were more likely deliberately struck for sale to collectors as part of complete sets. Four copper sets have been accounted for. T. Harrison Garrett had one, a mostly complete double set was apparently stolen from the Iowa State Historical Museum and a 4th set missing the half dollar was offered in Europe in 2022.
About 11 are known as follows: To see all available images, click here.
1) Britton-G Cogan 1/1883, Garrett-JHU, Stacks 3/76 in set, B/M 8/87 ANA, Superior 10/89 as PCGS64RB, Heritage 9/02 as NGC65RB – PCGS66RB, illustrated above, click on the thumbnail image to enlarge
2) Kagins 1/75, Superior 1/94, Sweet-Stacks 9/09, Heritage 1/11 FUN, Heritage10/11, Heritage 4/17 – NGC67RB
3) Monaco 10/22 set – NGC65RB
4) B/M 5/94 – NGC65RB
5) Stacks 1/05, B/M 6/10, Berngard-StacksBowers 3/12 – NGC65BN
6) Moore-Stacks 3/92, Heritage 8/92 ANA, B/M 1/97, Heritage 1/99 FUN, ANR 1/04, Goldberg 2/06 – NGC64RB
7) New Millenium-Heritage 11/03 as PCGS63BN, Queller-Heritage 1/09 FUN – NGC62BN
8) RARCOA 2/72?, Stacks 1/87?, B/M 10/05, Stacks 1/08 (mis-slabbed as a J-593 in both cases) – PCGS60BN, cleaned
9) Stacks Auction 85 in partial set - proof 60+
10,11) Stolen from the Iowa State Historical Museum
These were also struck in Brass J593/P657 with supposedly only 5 struck including the ex Simpson-Heritage 1/24 FUN - PCGS66 example illustrated below. We have records for what appears to be 6 different examples.
1) Reed-Durham Museum – ICG66
2) Share-ANR 9/03 as NGC64, Stacks 11/07 as NGC64, Simpson-Heritage 1/24 FUN – PCGS66, imaged below courtesy of American Numismatic Rarities
3) Stirling-Heritage 5/09, Berngard-Heritage 7/10, StacksBowers 3/12 lot 4192, Heritage 12/12 lot 29286, Heritage 3/13, Heritage 2/14, Heritage 11/14, StacksBowers 2/16 – NGC65
4) Anderson-Dupont-Stacks 11/54, Stacks 9/92, Heritage 7/97 ANA, Heritage 8/07, Berngard-Stacks 7/08, Heritage 1/10 FUN, StacksBowers 3/12 lot 4193, Heritage 12/12 lot 28636, Heritage 3/13, Heritage 11/21 lot 3749, Heritage 5/22 – PCGS64
5) RARCOA 4/72, Superior 8/75 ANA, Branigan-B/R 8/78 ANA, Superior Auction 79, Drew-B/M 3/96, B/M 2/06, Stacks 2/08, Heritage 8/11, Heritage 12/12 lot 29285, Heritage 4/13, Heritage 11/21 lot 3748 – PCGS63 with a ping by star 1.
6) Superior Auction 86 obverse color plated, Superior 2/87 – proof 63

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