1874 $10 Bickford Ten Dollar, Judd-1375, Pollock-1520, Low R.7, PR66 Brown PCGS. CAC....

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1874 Bickford Ten Dollar in Copper
Judd-1375, PR66 Brown

1874 $10 Bickford Ten Dollar, Judd-1375, Pollock-1520, Low R.7, PR66 Brown PCGS. CAC. Ex: Simpson. A youthful Liberty faces left on the obverse with her hair tied back and wearing a diadem ornamented with six stars reading LIBERTY. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA rings the rim; the date 1874 is below. Liberty has an olive wreath tied around her neck. On the reverse a rope design forms six separate cartouches around the rim. In the center is the Latin word UBIQUE "everywhere," with 16.72 GRAMS 900 FINE in three lines. In the cartouches are the coin's exchange value in various international currencies: DOLLARS 10; STERLING £2.1.1; MARKEN 41.99; KRONEN 37.31; GULDEN 20.73; FRANCS 51.81. Struck in copper with a plain edge.

Pollock comments that "UBIQUE is an allusion to the objective of the international coinage scheme, signifying that such pieces would be accepted everywhere." Perhaps today such a scheme appears incredibly naïve. However, while the various currencies varied against each other back then, they were revalued sporadically, not instantaneously and continually in real time. Barring easy access to the wealth of information that we have today on the interexchangeability of currencies, the Bickford proposals may seem more creative than naïve.

Although many of the copper examples have been gilt, this piece has not. Some mint red remains around the devices, but overall the surfaces are generously tinged with blue highlights, while revealing little evidence of contact. A few stray dark flecks fail to dampen the appeal on this, the finest certified example.
Ex: William W. Moore Collection (Stack's, 3/1992), lot 1729; Lemus Collection, Queller Family Collection Part Two (Heritage, 1/2009), lot 1845.
Important Selections from The Bob R. Simpson Collection, Part XI.

Coin Index Numbers: (NGC ID# 2AAH, PCGS# 61679, Greysheet# 14395)

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