Click to enlargeJ622/P691

The regular dies trial piece in aluminum. These were deliberately struck to show how easily aluminum coined and also for sale to collectors in cased sets several of which 3 were still intact as of 2014 including the former Garrett set and one in the Eric P. Newman collection. To view the set, click here.

A half dozen are confirmed as follows: To see all available images, click here.

1) Newcomer, unknown intermediaries, offered for $850 in Kosoff & Kreisberg's May 1950 edition of Numismatic Gallery Monthly, Bowers and Merena 1/95, Heritage 7/97 ANA, Superior 4/03, Heritage 1/07, M. Hagen still in set - PCGS65

2) R.A. Britton (H.G. Sampson, 2/1882), lot 956; T. Harrison Garrett; Garrett Collection; Johns Hopkins University (Bowers and Ruddy, 11/1979), lot 396; Superior 10/89 Heifetz sale, Heritage 1/13 FUN, Simpson, set now broken up - Heritage 1/21 FUN, Bourne - PCGS66, illustrated above, click on the thumbnail image to enlarge

Note: Heritage mis-pedigreed this coin in the Simpson sale. The coin is easily plate matched to the Garrett image in the Superior Heifetz sale.

3) Treasury Secretary Hugh McCulloch, McCulloch family, Newman-EPNNES, set now broken up Heritage 11/14 as NGC65

4) Kosoff 8/58 ANA, Pittman-Akers 10/97 – ch proof

5) NERCA 7/79 ANA in set, B/M 9/84, Bourne – PCGS64

6) Heritage 8/01 ANA, Rau-Heritage 4/18 – PCGS62, corroded

Photo courtesy of PCGS.