Lot 179
1818 Quarter/Cent Pattern Judd-45 R8+. PCGS graded MS-63. Frosty medium steel gray and silver with bluish steel tones in the protected areas. Just a few trivial handling marks including a tiny tick over the first 8 in the date. Essentially as struck. This "pattern" was struck over an 1860 Seated Liberty Quarter using salvaged dies: the obverse is from the 1818 Browning variety #2 quarter, the reverse is from the 1818 N-8 large cent variety. Ample undertype from the reverse of the 1860 quarter shows in the center of the obverse, and faint traces of the 1860 date on the quarter can be seen below TES at the top of the reverse. This piece was struck outside the mint, apparently during the 1860's, and it is unique. Noyes photo #61463. Previously housed in an NGC slab graded PF64. The attribution and Doug Bird Collection provenance are noted on the PCGS label. PCGS population 1; the only example graded. PCGS ID #12201. (PCGS # 12201) Value $15,000 - UP
Ex Heritage Auctions 1/7/2009:1506-Douglas F. Bird Collection (lot ticket included).
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