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Proof ***Auction Highlight*** 1836 Gobrecht Dollar $1 J-60 Graded pr40 details By SEGS (fc)

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money Start Price:9,000.00 USD Estimated At:6,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD
Proof ***Auction Highlight*** 1836 Gobrecht Dollar $1 J-60 Graded pr40 details By SEGS (fc)
***Auction Highlight*** 1836 J-60 Gobrecht Dollar $1 Graded pr40 details By SEGS. Since dollar production was suspended in 1804, the silver dollar denomination had become unfamiliar in commerce in the decades preceding 1836, though Spanish 8 reales and other world coins of silver dollar size continued to circulate throughout the United States. In 1831, when the tide of bullion outflows to the Far East began to make the market for a domestically circulating dollar coin possible again, the ban on dollar production was lifted and the possibility of a dollar coin was reconsidered. With engraver William Kneass in poor health, the Mint was forced to wait until after the June 1835 appointment of Christian Gobrecht as assistant or "second" engraver. Gobrecht received design assistance from two of America's best known painters, Thomas Sully, who offered sketches of a seated figure of Liberty with cap and pole, and Titian Peale, who submitted several sketches of a "naturalistic eagle" whose flight was described by Mint Director Robert M. Patterson as "like the country of which it is the emblem, its course onward and upward." Gobrecht refined Sully's concept for the obverse and Peale's concept for the reverse, to which he added 26 stars, 13 large ones for the original colonies and 13 smaller ones for subsequent states, apparently anticipating the January 1837 entry of Michigan to the Union.Dating Gobrecht dollars hinges upon their die alignment and die state. This example is struck in Die Alignment I, standard coin turn with the eagle pointing upward, marking it as an original striking from late 1836. Long considered a pattern, modern numismatists recognize that the 1,000 Gobrecht dollars struck before December 31, 1836 were coined to serve in circulation. The Mint even conducted something of a press campaign on the new coin, as descriptions of "a new dollar of our own Mint" were published in New York as early as December 15, 1836, and spread nationwide over the course of the following month. Though 1836 Gobrecht dollars are called Proofs today because of their reflective surfaces, only a small group were set aside for presentation, including the example Mint Director Robert M. Patterson donated to the American Philosophical Society on December 16, 1836, and a small group purchased by President Andrew Jackson A Key Date's Pick, Bid to Win, Don't let it get Away, you might not find its equal Coin. I give this coin my highest recommendation