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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.
We can confirm the following 7 examples: 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 NGC64RB, Superior 10/90 as NGC64RB, Heritage 1/08 FUN as NGC64RB, Simpson-Heritage 1/21 FUN, Bourne – PCGS66RB with a spot near shield at 9:00, illustrated above, click on the thumbnail image to enlarge
2) Monaco 10/22 set – NGC66RB with a spot near D in UNITED and at bottom right of second bar in III
3) Farouk ?, Kreisberg 2/60 ?, Stacks 3/78, J.E.Drew-B/M 3/96 as artificially toned, Heritage 1/97 FUN as PCGS63BN, Superior 2/98 as PCSG63BN, B/M 7/04 as PCGS63BN, StacksBowers 3/13, StacksBowers 6/13 – PCGS64BN
4) Goldberg 5/12 – NGC62BN
5) Leidman privately 4/86, Bourne – PCGS62BN
6, 7) Stolen from the Iowa State Historical Museum
Photo courtesy of Bowers and Merena.
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