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Gem Proof Nickel 1866 Dime Pattern Finest Seen by PCGS 1866 Pattern Ten-Cents. Judd-534, Pollock-59

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Gem Proof Nickel 1866 Dime Pattern Finest Seen by PCGS  1866 Pattern Ten-Cents. Judd-534, Pollock-59
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Gem Proof Nickel 1866 Dime Pattern
Finest Seen by PCGS
1866 Pattern Ten-Cents. Judd-534, Pollock-599. Nickel. Reeded Edge. Rarity-7+. Proof-65 PCGS. Obv: from the regular-issue die of the year. Rev: from the regular-issue die of the year. The softly lustrous dove-gray surfaces enjoy a whisper of uniform champagne-gold across both sides. The overall visual effect is one of satiny and mattelike devices and fields, rather than frosty devices against reflective fields, but such was the nature of nickel minting technology and metallurgy at the time. We note a small but interesting planchet lamination on the obverse rim just left of the date. Plate-matched to a Heritage sale as the Lemus Collection specimen, see further information below. This is the finest example of the variety certified to date by PCGS. The uspatterns.com website suggests as few as six examples of this elusive Judd variety are known; they also note it may have been struck in silver-nickel alloy, but no specimen has ever been satisfactorily disclosed to prove that 19th-century supposition. Today’s wisdom says these were probably produced at the Mint for sale to collectors of the era – judging by today’s population, there were not many takers in 1866.
PCGS Population: 1; none finer.
From Superior’s sale of the Jerry Buss Collection, January 1985, lot 559; their sale of the L.W. Hoffecker Collection, February 1987, lot 946a; Heritage’s sale of the Lemus Collection-Queller Family Collection, Part II, January 2009, lot 1665.
PCGS #60732




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