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Although described as regular dies trial pieces, these were actually novodels deliberately struck for sale to collectors as part of complete off-metal sets. For more on that click, here. These have a obverse die with a broken D in United.
We can only account for 4 examples: To see images of these, click here.
1) Stacks 6/86, Queller-Heritage 1/09 FUN, Legend Auctions 3/20 as NGC65RB, Bourne - PCGS65RB with V-shaped lintmark to the left of the 1 in date.
2) Hughes 7/77 advertisement, Kagins 5/78, Heritage 8/98 ANA as NGC64RB, Goldberg 2/03 as PCGS64RB, Simpson-Heritage 11/20 - PCGS65BN also with V-shaped lintmark to the left of the 1 in date, illustrated above, click on the thumbnail image to enlarge
3) Crouch-Superior 6/77, Hughes 2/78, Bourne - PCGS65BN
4) Heritage 1/16 FUN - PCGS64BN
Photo courtesy of Ira & Larry Goldberg's Coins & Collectibles.
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