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1896 Pattern 1C. J-1768 NGC MS64 BR

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1896 Pattern 1C. J-1768 NGC MS64 BR
<b>1896 Pattern Cent. Copper, plain edge. Judd-1768. Pollock-1983. NGC graded MS64 BR.</b> A satiny and lustrous brown specimen with a nuance of faint purple gray on both sides within the legends and devices. The strike is virtually complete, sharp on the shield and also on the ribbon which has LIBERTY incuse on it. Although the design of the five cent piece had been changed in 1883, the mint began work on a series of Patterns in fifteen different metal combinations that were used to strike these pieces. Two alloys of phosphor bronze were made &#40;indistinguishable today, and lumped under Judd-1768&#41;. &#34;While a number of the alloys submitted for test were found to work satisfactorily, it is not believed that nay of them would be an improvement upon the alloys at present in use,&#34; said Charles Stone, Chairman of the Committee on coinage, weights and measures of the House of Representatives <b>&#40;PCGS # 62222&#41;</b>

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