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Fine Details 1792 Half Disme 1792 Pattern Half Disme. Judd-7, Pollock-7. Silver. Reeded Edge. Medal

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Fine Details 1792 Half Disme 1792 Pattern Half Disme. Judd-7, Pollock-7. Silver. Reeded Edge. Medal
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Fine Details 1792 Half Disme 1792 Pattern Half Disme. Judd-7, Pollock-7. Silver. Reeded Edge. Medal Turn. Rarity-4. Genuine – Repaired & Plugged – Fine Details PCGS. Deep steel-gray with lighter high points and contrasting blue highlights. Hole punched near PA on obverse, plugged and reengraved in that area, planchet wavy there as a result, reverse affected at TES and the eagle’s head.
This is one of “those” coins that is steeped in historical and numismatic legend. Struck to the tune of 1,500 pieces and mentioned by Washington in 1792 as “a small beginning” in U.S. coinage, these “pattern” pieces are mostly considered by today’s collectors to be an actual “small beginning” to America’s commercial future on the world stage. It has been told, time and time again through the centuries, that these coins were struck from melted silverware donated by Martha Washington, and that it could be her portrait on the obverse. Colorful tales abound in numismatics, and today’s collectors tend to take them as just that, tall tales of wonder based on the numismatic mores of the time. All this aside, the present coin will prove an amply suitable filler example of America’s first mass venture into a silver circulating medium of exchange.
PCGS #11020



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