1852 PG$1 Gold Dollar, Judd-137, Pollock-164, R.8 PR65 PCGS....

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1852 Judd-137 Annular Gold Dollar, PR65
Only Two Examples Known in Gold
Struck Over a Perforated Quarter Eagle

1852 PG$1 Gold Dollar, Judd-137, Pollock-164, R.8 PR65 PCGS. Ex: Wilkinson-Simpson. The obverse design consists of the legend USA above and 1852 below. The reverse features a circle of olive sprigs. Struck over a quarter eagle, holed at center, with a plain edge. This example is said to be struck over an 1846-dated Liberty quarter eagle, although Ron Guth, who examined the coin at the Central States Numismatic Society's annual convention in May 2000, was unable to confirm the date. The other example that we sold in April 2021 is struck over an 1859 quarter eagle, proving that these patterns are restrikes. Other examples were struck in silver, copper, copper-nickel, and nickel. Some of those may be original strikes that were produced to test the concept of a perforated coin, while most others were restrikes, likely produced in the 1860s. The reasoning for a larger diameter, perforated coin was to maintain the one dollar value on a coin that was less likely to be lost due to its small size.

This annular gold dollar is nicely detailed with brilliant yellow surfaces that show honey-gold and pale blue toning. Much of the legend and the denomination from the quarter eagle reverse are visible in the obverse fields of this pattern while traces of the quarter eagle obverse design remain on the reverse. This is just the second public offering of this example, and only the fourth auction appearance of either example after 1956.

The two known examples in gold are:

PR65 PCGS. F.C.C. Boyd; Dr. J. Hewitt Judd; Illustrated History (Abe Kosoff, 1962), lot 164; Dr. John E. Wilkinson; Paramount International Coin Corporation; LRIS Collection (Superior, 1/2008), lot 659; Bob R. Simpson Collection. The present specimen.

PR64 PCGS. CAC. Harlan P. Smith Collection (S.H. & H. Chapman, 5/1906), lot 1340; H.O. Granberg; Waldo C. Newcomer; "Colonel" E.H.R. Green; F.C.C. Boyd; King Farouk; Palace Collection of Egypt Sale (Sotheby's, 2/1954), lot 334; Robert Schermerhorn; ANA Sale (James Kelly, 8/1956), lot 1651; Major Lenox Lohr; Fixed Price List (Empire Coin Company, 1961); Dr. James O. Sloss; Abe Kosoff (1974); ANA Sale (New England Rare Coin Auctions, 7/1979), lot 1298; Bob R. Simpson Collection/Central States Signature (Heritage, 4/2021), lot 4196.
Important Selections from The Bob R. Simpson Collection, Part XI.

Coin Index Numbers: (NGC ID# 2993, PCGS# 11579, Greysheet# 12140)

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