1866 Pattern Shield Nickel. Judd-499, Pollock-584. Rarity-7+. Bronze.

Vividly Toned 1866 Pattern Shield Nickel Judd-499 in Bronze Ex Crouch-Simpson 1866 Pattern Shield Nickel. Judd-499, Pollock-584. Rarity-7+. Bronze. Plain Edge. Proof-65 BN (PCGS). Obv: Similar to the adopted Shield nickel design, but the date is divided by the ball of the shield and the motto IN GOD WE TRUST is expressed in tiny letters. The remnants of an errant T can be seen in the field slightly past the final letter T in TRUST. Rev: The With Rays design that the Mint used for regular issue Shield nickel coinage in 1866 and early 1867. One of only half a dozen or so examples of this Judd number extant, and a superior example in terms of both quality and eye appeal. The beautifully toned surfaces are dressed in dominant walnut and antique copper brown patina, backlit by intensely vivid multicolored iridescence in antique gold, champagne-apricot, salmon-pink and lilac-blue. Fully struck and expertly preserved, provenance concerns alone compel us to mention trivial carbon spots on the reverse within the bottom of the digit 5 in the denomination, against the ball, and at the border before the word CENTS. This type was a favorite with pattern specialist Dr. Walter Lee Crouch, who had three impressions from these dies struck in either copper or bronze. They appeared together at auction in three consecutive lots in Superior Galleries' sale of June 1977. Offered here is one of the Crouch coins, lot 197 in the Superior sale. Provenance: Ex Superior's sale of the Dr. Walter Lee Crouch Collection, June 1977, lot 197; our (Bowers and Ruddy's) Rare Coin Review No. 30, p. 67; Bowers and Ruddy, March 1978; our (Bowers and Merena's) sale of the J.E. Drew Collection, March 1996 Collections of Thomas H. Sebring and Gunther P. Garbe sale, lot 2023; our (American Numismatic Rarities') C.L. Lee Sale, September 2005, lot 970, as NGC Proof-65 BN; Heritage's Milwaukee ANA Signature Auction of August 2007, lot 2179, as NGC Proof-65 BN; our (Stack's) Samuel Berngard and S.S. New York Collections sale, July 2008, lot 4189, as NGC Proof-65 BN; Bob R. Simpson; Heritage's sale of the Bob R. Simpson Collection, January 2021 FUN Signature Auction, lot 3134. PCGS Population: 1; 0 finer in this category. There are no grading events reported in the PCGS RB or RD categories. PCGS# 60695. NGC ID: 29L2. Click here for certification details from PCGS. Image with the PCGS TrueView logo is obtained from and is subject to a license agreement with Collectors Universe, Inc. and its divisions PCGS and PSA.

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