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1863 seated dollar
I saw this on ebay and was wondering about it. I've never heard of an
aluminum proof in 1863. http://tinyurl.com/j739d It's not like I'm going to bid, just curious. If its on ebay it must be real ;-) |
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1863 seated dollar
Lowell wrote: I saw this on ebay and was wondering about it. I've never heard of an aluminum proof in 1863. http://tinyurl.com/j739d It's not like I'm going to bid, just curious. If its on ebay it must be real ;-) There were all kinds of pattern coins struck in off-metals in the 1800s. This looks to me like a so called "fantasy piece" where the mint director, or some other mint official, had coins specially struck clandestinely for himself and his favored "clients" in off-metals and muled die combinations that should never have existed. This one fits the bill as it is an aluminum planchet with an obverse 1863 die in the 'no motto' years paired with a 'with motto' reverse that was put into service in 1866. You can check out www.uspatterns.com and see all sorts of interesting pattern coins and die trial pieces that the mint produced. |
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1863 seated dollar
"Lowell" wrote in message
ups.com... I saw this on ebay and was wondering about it. I've never heard of an aluminum proof in 1863. http://tinyurl.com/j739d It's not like I'm going to bid, just curious. If its on ebay it must be real ;-) That is a pretty coin. Aluminum usually doesn't hold up well, but I guess that coin hasn't seen much circulation. At the time, aluminum was known but was very hard to obtain from ore, and therefore was a precious metal. Prior to 1886, it would have been impractical as a coinage metal because there wasn't enough of it. Thus the aluminum dollar is a fantasy piece -- an image of what a truly wealthy nation's coinage might look like. IF |
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