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1874 $10 Bickford Ten Dollar, Judd-1376, Pollock-1521, R.8, PR65 Cameo PCGS. CAC....
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1874 Bickford Ten Dollar in Aluminum
Judd-1376, PR65 Cameo
Ex: Stickney-Pittman
1874 $10 Bickford Ten Dollar, Judd-1376, Pollock-1521, R.8, PR65
Cameo PCGS. CAC. Ex: Simpson. The obverse depicts a bust of
Liberty facing left with the legend UNITED STATES OF AMERICA above
and the date below. Liberty wears a diadem inscribed with the word
LIBERTY and ornamented with six stars. The weight 16.72 GRAMS, the
standard of the metal 900 FINE, and the word UBIQUE are centered on
the reverse. Around the periphery is the U.S. denomination DOLLARS
10 and the following international equivalents: STERLING (Pound)
2.1.1; MARKEN 41.99; KRONEN 37.31; GULDEN 20.73; and FRANCS 51.81.
Struck in aluminum with a reeded edge.This ten dollar gold pattern represents Dana Bickford's vision for an international coinage. He devised it as a solution to the problem of inconvertibility between United States coins and their European counterparts. Just a few years later, Dr. William Wheeler Hubbell tried to solve the same problem with stellas. Examples of the Bickford ten dollar exist in gold, copper, aluminum, and nickel with plain edge variants for those in copper and nickel. This is one of only two examples of Judd-1376 known.
The surfaces of this Gem Cameo proof exhibit pronounced black-and-white contrast, with deeply reflective fields and thickly frosted devices typical of an aluminum pattern. Delicate streaks of thin golden patina appear over each side without minimizing the overwhelming brilliance. CAC: 1 in 65, 0 finer (12/21).
Ex: Matthew A. Stickney Collection (Henry Chapman, 6/1907), lot 572a; General Charles McCormick Reeve Collection and Others (Thomas Elder, 11/1937), lot 1007, reportedly from the collection of an anonymous Chicago collector active between 1905 and 1909; ANA Convention Sale (Abe Kosoff, 8/1958), lot 1881; John J. Pittman Collection (David Akers, 10/1997), lot 809; Southern Collection.
Coin Index Numbers: (PCGS# 537350, Greysheet# 197956)
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Auction Info
2022 January 12 - 16 FUN US Coins Signature® Auction - Orlando FUN #1341 (go to Auction Home page)
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