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1822 DT50C Obverse Half Dollar Die Trial, Judd-A1822-1, Pollock-6215, High R.7, MS64 Brown PCGS. CAC....
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1822 Obverse Half Dollar Impression
Judd-A1822-1 in Copper, MS64 Brown
Two or Three in Private Hands
1822 DT50C Obverse Half Dollar Die Trial, Judd-A1822-1,
Pollock-6215, High R.7, MS64 Brown PCGS. CAC. Ex: Simpson. A
uniface obverse die trial from a regular 1822 half dollar die.
Struck in copper with a plain edge. According to Andrew Pollock,
this die "does not appear to match any of the 1822 obverses listed
in the Overton half dollar reference, and hence it is inferred that
it was never used for regular coinage production." The die may have
been used to coin one or two circulation-strikes halves before
failing early on, but no such examples have turned up. All
Judd-A1822-1 representatives feature an arching crack across the
portrait in various states. It is likely that the Mint sold the
broken die, and that these impressions in copper were privately
produced. Dr. Montroville Dickeson, Joseph Mickley, Edward Cogan,
and John W. Haseltine are associated with such restrikes, produced
during the mid-19th century.USPatterns.com reports approximately six known examples, including two in the ANS collection and "another, the Parmelee, Byron Reed example is in the Durham Museum." Of the three that could possibly reside in private hands, only two are certified, including this piece. The other is the Garrett-Meyer example, used as the plate coin in Pollock's reference, and now certified MS62 by PCGS. A third example was offered as part of the Dr. Curtis R. Paxman Collection (Bowers and Ruddy, 11/1974), lot 1034. It may be one of the two than now reside at the ANS. This piece is plated in the Judd reference, and it was Dr. Judd who originally provided the earlier provenance to McCoy and Farouk collections. However, we can find no example in the 1954 Palace Collections catalog.
Well-centered on a slightly irregular flan, this near-Gem features glossy chocolate-brown surfaces with original mint-red color around many of the devices. Doubling and light die rust is evident throughout. The reverse is generally smooth with file marks around the rims and a patch of roughness at the lower right.
Ex: John F. McCoy Collection (W. Elliott Woodward, 5/1864), lot 1838, where it brought $3.00; Daniel Bertsch; Bach, Bertsch, et Al Collections (W. Elliott Woodward, 3/1865), lot 2870; William Harvey Strobridge; King Farouk; Dr. J. Hewitt Judd; Stewart Witham; Auction '81 (RARCOA, 8/1981), lot 306; Charlton "Swampy" Meyer; Russell J. Logan Collection (Bowers and Merena, 11/2002), lot 2411; private collector; Samuel Berngard and S.S. New York Collections (Stack's, 7/2008), lot 4152.
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Coin Index Numbers: (PCGS# 113072)
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