1863 10C Ten Cents, Judd-326, Pollock-395, High R.7, PR64+ Red and Brown PCGS....

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1863 Ten Cent Postage Currency Pattern
Judd-326, PR64+ Red and Brown

1863 10C Ten Cents, Judd-326, Pollock-395, High R.7, PR64+ Red and Brown PCGS. Ex: Bass-Simpson. The obverse bears a central shield with intersecting arrows behind and a ring atop, from which depends an inverted laurel wreath framing the shield left and right. EXCHANGED FOR / U.S. NOTES occupies the periphery. The reverse shows two rosettes separating POSTAGE CURRENCY and ACT JULY 1862, with 10 CENTS 1863 on three lines in the center. Metallurgical analyses done in 2014 (no paperwork included now) indicated that this piece is struck from pure copper, not in the purported billon composition of 75% copper / 25% silver as per earlier (pre-eighth) editions of Judd and the Bass Museum Sylloge. Struck with a reeded edge. The strike is in medallic alignment.

This piece is certified as Judd-326 by NGC and weighs 35 grains according to its prior (2014) documentation. Author David Cassel (United States Postage Currency Pattern Coins, 2007) clearly suspected the Bass reeded edge coin was pure copper, writing in 2007, "Three of the four known reeded edge pure or virtually pure copper coins having no silver are held in perpetuity in museum collections [Bass, Byron Reed (tested), and J.C. Mitchelson]." The surfaces are beautifully lustrous on each side, with medium-brown devices contrasting well against field colors of orange, mint, lilac, and saffron.
Ex: Numismatics, Ltd., August 12, 1974, from an unspecified trade; Harry W. Bass Research Foundation; ANA Signature (Heritage, 8/2014), lot 5798; Important Selections from the Bob R. Simpson Collection, Part IV / Dallas Signature (Heritage, 2/2021), lot 3165.
From The Atherton Collection of U.S. Pattern Coins.

Coin Index Numbers: (PCGS# 535038)

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