1863 1C J-299, RB PR(PCGS#70454)
1863 1C J-299, RB PR (PCGS#70454)
The August 2013 Chicago ANA World's Fair of Money
- 拍卖行
- Stack's Bowers
- 批号
- 2889
- 等级
- PR66 CA
- 价格
- 19,813
- 详细说明
- 1863 Pattern Indian Cent. Judd-299, Pollock-359. Rarity-3. Bronze. Plain Edge. Proof-66 RB Cameo (NGC). Regular issue dies. The strike is sharp in all areas including the feather tips in the Indian princess' headdress and the four diamonds on her ribbon. The design elements are frosty and the fields are blazing mirrors. The fields are very nearly full fiery red, but with blushes of blue on the high points of the designs. This variety is the precise type of the bronze cent of 1864, but dated a year earlier. In this year Mint officials observed the success of circulating private tokens made on thin bronze planchets. They decided to do likewise, made patterns such as this, and in the next year abandoned the thicker, heavier, and harder to strike copper-nickel format. While some have suggested that coins of this variety may have been made as samples for members of Congress, as nearly all exist in Choice or Gem Proof format, likely the main recipients were numismatists. PCGS# 70454.