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1854 FD octagonal 1 Dollar, BG-509, Rarity 6

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / US Coins Start Price:500.00 USD Estimated At:1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD
1854 FD octagonal 1 Dollar, BG-509, Rarity 6
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1854 A specimen is crudely illustrated in Im Weltverkehr Coursirende Gold-und-Silbermuenzen in Ihrer Natuerlichen Groesse U. Zeichnung. Die Groesste aller Existirenden Muenz-Facsimilies-Sammlungen, Bremerhaven: Engelken Osterndorff, 1858. Same obverse die, repolished (all stars smaller); similar reverse, FD offset to right, star vertically above circle. A named Frontier Deviercy product. Very Rare. Plate Coin, first edition, Breen-Gillio, California Pioneer Fractional Gold. Walter Breen wrote, "brilliant Prooflike Uncirculated...minute planchet mark from foreign matter adhering to die at striking; 85 weak." PCGS MS62. Ex Superior Lee and Shaffer Collections 9/25/1988, Lot 92, ex Lee Collection. One of the finest known - only one coin graded finer by PCGS. Serial# 26897437 Totheroh Collection HKA#63619