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This is believed to have been designed by Jacob Perkins who is best known for creating the Washington funeral medals Baker 165-169. It is not a U.S. Mint product.
About a half dozen are known as follows. To see all available images, click here.
1) Mitchelson, Connecticut State Library - electrotype
2) Earle-H Chapman 6/1912, Wilharm-Mehl 2/21, Shinkle-Morgenthau 4/32, unknown intermediates, Whitford 11/2002 - electrotype, this has a little edge damage at the rim of the portrait at 5:00 which is not on the following specimen, illustrated above, click on the thumbnail image to enlarge
3) Stacks 9/09, Berngard-StacksBowers 11/11, Cardinal-StacksBowers 1/13 - NGCAU58BN - electrotype
4) B/M 1/86, possibly one of the last 2 but the plate does not appear to match either
5) Adams & Woodin plate coin - silverplated
6) StacksBowers 6/11 - NGCAU58BN, die struck piefort
7) Harmer-Rooke 11/69, StacksBowers 8/11 ANA, StacksBowers 8/13 ANA, StacksBowers 8/24 - NGCVF30, die struck
The Parmelee, Jenks, Newcomer piece was supposedly die struck and may be the original 1862 Finotti piece is possibly #6 or another. The Raymond-Harmer Rooke 3/70 coin is also likely one of the AU pieces listed above. The Judd 1st-7th edition plate coin is also unidentified.
Perkins is also credited with the creation of 2 dollar trials, one dated 1818 P5067 and the other dated 1819 P5070.
Photo courtesy of Craig A. Whitford Numismatic Auctions.
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