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1851 $1 Restrike PR64 Cameo PCGS. CAC. The contrast on this exceptional Choice Cameo proof is considerable, with crisply struck and lightly frosted silver-white devices that project from moderately reflective gold-gray and smoke-gray fields. A lintmark that passes through star 1 serves as a pedigree identifier. Well-preserved overall despite a few minor hairlines in the fields.
Current numismatic scholarship suggests that not all proof 1851 restrikes were made at the same time. At least one batch was produced by Theodore Eckfeldt and accomplices from 1858 until mid-1860, and another was apparently created by Mint Director Henry Linderman, likely from 1867 to 1868. The same centered date obverse die was used for all restrikes. Cameo proofs (including the present piece) exhibit die chips on the left (facing) wing. Those without cameo contrast typically lack those die chips, and instead the first three vertical lines on the reverse shield are attenuated near the juncture with the horizontal lines.
Ex: Dallas Signature (Heritage, 4/2007), lot 947; Legend Numismatics (6/2007); Eugene H. Gardner Collection, Part III (Heritage, 5/2015), lot 98577.
1851 $1 Restrike PR64 Cameo PCGS. CAC. The contrast on this exceptional Choice Cameo proof is considerable, with crisply struck and lightly frosted silver-white devices that project from moderately reflective gold-gray and smoke-gray fields. A lintmark that passes through star 1 serves as a pedigree identifier. Well-preserved overall despite a few minor hairlines in the fields.
Current numismatic scholarship suggests that not all proof 1851 restrikes were made at the same time. At least one batch was produced by Theodore Eckfeldt and accomplices from 1858 until mid-1860, and another was apparently created by Mint Director Henry Linderman, likely from 1867 to 1868. The same centered date obverse die was used for all restrikes. Cameo proofs (including the present piece) exhibit die chips on the left (facing) wing. Those without cameo contrast typically lack those die chips, and instead the first three vertical lines on the reverse shield are attenuated near the juncture with the horizontal lines.
Ex: Dallas Signature (Heritage, 4/2007), lot 947; Legend Numismatics (6/2007); Eugene H. Gardner Collection, Part III (Heritage, 5/2015), lot 98577.