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1867 5C Five Cents, Judd-565, Pollock-626, R.8, PR66 Cameo NGC. Original Judd Plate Coin. A bust of Liberty faces left, and wears a headdress with four feathers and four stars. A ribbon in her hair bears the inscription UNION & LIBERTY, which presumably would not have been a popular design element in the South. "LONGACRE F." resides below the bust; a signature nearly as prominent as that of Gobrecht's below his silver dollar. The reverse has a prominent V within a large shield and a large, six-pointed star at the top. Struck in nickel with a plain edge. The obverse design is relatively available in aluminum (Judd-561-562), the obverse in copper (Judd-563-564) are rare. However, only two examples are known in nickel. (The other piece is impounded in the Byron Reed Western Heritage Museum in Omaha.)The fields are deeply mirrored and the devices are fully struck -- both notable attributes for a nickel product. The cameo contrast is obvious on each side. An extraordinary opportunity for the pattern collector.
Ex: Woodside Collection (New York Coin and Stamp Co., 4/1892), lot 213, where it realized $1.00; 1914 ANS Exhibit -- Judson Brenner, exhibitor; Dr. Hewitt Judd; Dodson-Collier Collections (Bowers and Merena, 6/1984), lot 4404; L.W. Hoffecker Collection (Superior, 2/1987), lot 462B. This is also the original plate coin used in the Judd pattern reference, editions 1 through 7.
1867 5C Five Cents, Judd-565, Pollock-626, R.8, PR66 Cameo NGC. Original Judd Plate Coin. A bust of Liberty faces left, and wears a headdress with four feathers and four stars. A ribbon in her hair bears the inscription UNION & LIBERTY, which presumably would not have been a popular design element in the South. "LONGACRE F." resides below the bust; a signature nearly as prominent as that of Gobrecht's below his silver dollar. The reverse has a prominent V within a large shield and a large, six-pointed star at the top. Struck in nickel with a plain edge. The obverse design is relatively available in aluminum (Judd-561-562), the obverse in copper (Judd-563-564) are rare. However, only two examples are known in nickel. (The other piece is impounded in the Byron Reed Western Heritage Museum in Omaha.)The fields are deeply mirrored and the devices are fully struck -- both notable attributes for a nickel product. The cameo contrast is obvious on each side. An extraordinary opportunity for the pattern collector.
Ex: Woodside Collection (New York Coin and Stamp Co., 4/1892), lot 213, where it realized $1.00; 1914 ANS Exhibit -- Judson Brenner, exhibitor; Dr. Hewitt Judd; Dodson-Collier Collections (Bowers and Merena, 6/1984), lot 4404; L.W. Hoffecker Collection (Superior, 2/1987), lot 462B. This is also the original plate coin used in the Judd pattern reference, editions 1 through 7.