Click to enlargeJ652/P725

The regular dies trial piece in aluminum.





These were deliberately struck to show how easily aluminum coined and for sale to collectors in cased sets several of which are still in existence including the former Garrett set and one in the Eric P. Newman collection. Virgil Brand owned 2 sets - Woodside's and Stickney's. To view the set, click here.

A half dozen are confirmed: 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 1/24 FUN - PCGS66

3) Treasury Secretary Hugh McCulloch, McCulloch family, Newman-EPNNES, set now broken up Heritage 11/14 - NGC64

4) Stacks 3/58 described as “proof with slight pitting on edge” ?, Lohr-Empire 1961 FPL, Pittman-Akers 10/97 – PCGS60

5) NERCA 7/79 ANA, B/M 9/84, ANR 9/03 as NGC66, ANR 1/06 as NGC66, Heritage 4/17 as NGC66, Heritage 1/18 FUN, Heritage 8/20 – NGC67 with a light line through OL in DOLLAR

6) Private collection - NGC63

Photo courtesy of Heritage.