| J-165 (1854 Bronze Four-Leaf LFE) Three or four examples of this pattern are purported to exist. The website of The Society of US Pattern Collectors states that "Judd says that these are restrikes," which seems logical, as the only other appearance of this reverse is on the 1855 four-leaf reverse (J-167 through J-171A). According to the first edition of the Judd Book (1959), one specimen resided in the National Numismatic Collection of the Smithsonian Institution, a second in the Massachusetts Historical Society and a third was "reported." According to the third edition of Judd (1965), the third specimen "was in the [Virgil] Brand collection." Pollock cites the first two, but not Brand, rather citing Lot 1749 of Sotheby's 1954 King Farouk "Palace Collection." The Smithsonian specimen is, in actuality, a J-165B (three leaves under the E in STATES). I am currently attempting to confirm the Massachusetts Historical Society, Brand and Farouk specimens. The "coin" pictured above is a composite of the obverse of a J-164 and the reverse of a J-168. The Adams and Woodin plate coin for A-W 191 and Judd 1st plate coin for J-165 are both four-leaf reverses. The question is whether these are composites or actual coins. |
J-165 (Bronze)
Rick Kay Rare Coins/Patterncoins.com
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