THE JUDD-1140 PATTERN DOLLAR

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V17 2014 INDEX E-SYLUM ARCHIVE

The E-Sylum: Volume 17, Number 30, July 20, 2014, Article 15

Another article (by Greg Cohen & Jeff Ambio) from the July 9, 2014 Stack's Bowers blog describes an interesting and extremely rare U.S. pattern coin - the Judd-1140 Pattern Dollar. -Editor

The 1871 pattern “Standard Silver” dollar, attributed as Judd-1140, Pollock-1282, is rated as Rarity-8, with only two known specimens. The design type features Liberty dressed as an Indian, seated on a globe holding a pole with a liberty cap. The reverse shows the denomination within a cereal wreath, and the word STANDARD above. Nowhere on either side is the name of the country of origin noted, an interesting feature.

“While the extreme rarity of this type has long been recognized, the existence of two examples in numismatic hands remained unknown until the present sale, and for a very simple reason. The coin we are offering here has been off the market for more than 40 years, having last appeared at auction in Kagin's Sale of the '70s. Since that event, conducted in November 1973, only one other example of Judd-1140 has been offered for sale -- the Farouk specimen that reappeared in Spink Smythe's May 2011 sale of the Magnolia Collection.

To read the complete article, see: Extremely Rare Judd-1140 Pattern Dollar (www.stacksbowers.com/NewsMedia/Blogs/TabId/780/ArtMID/
2678/ArticleID/64611/Extremely-Rare-Judd-1140-Pattern-Dollar.aspx)

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