Walter Breen's Encyclopedia of United States and Colonial Proof Coins 1722-1989

1834. Half Dollar. Restrike. Type IIIa: small date, large stars, small letters. "Obv. Apparently an original die, the border reworked to show small beads within wide flat raised rim. Rev. Same die as last. Struck on old lettered edge planchet in close collar, edge lettering squashed almost to invisibility. Fabric identical to last. Probably made on the same occasion. Extremely rare. (1) Davis-Graves: 527. (2) Davis-Graves: 528. (3) Allenburger, McPherson: 887, - c.A. Cass -"Empire": 1338. (4) Smithsonian, from Mint Cabinet. (5) Brand-Lichtenfels II: 1311, to Phila. Estate. Cf. also Winsor: 526; two others reported - reappearances of above?

1835. Half Dollar. Restrike. Obv. Apparently an original die, the border reworked as on the 1834. Rev. As preceding. Struck the same way, same fabric, probably same day. Extremely rare. (1) Smithsonian, from Mint Cabinet. (2) Specimen pictured on p. 59 of Newman-Bressett. Two others reported. Compare Winsor: 527.

*1836. Half Cent. Restrike. Original obv. and reverse die, not yet cracked. Series I. Uniform with the Series I coins of 1831 sharing this reverse and the 1841-2,52,56,57 with reverse B of 1856. Weight average 81.8 grains. Very rare, more so than the originals. (1) 1962 New York Metropolitan Convention sale: 229; Wolfson II: (1963), and/or Miles: 48 (82 grains) may be a reappearance of the same coin. (2) Eric P. Newman, 81.8 gr., ex Col. E. H. R. Green. (3) Ryder: 315 to S. J. 0., ex Peter Gschwend (1908), Woodin, 79.8 grains. (4) Brobston's, 77.3 grains, was offered at $600. (5) Norweb, 82.4 grains, from an Elder sale in 1935. Others probably exist, mistaken for originals. One of them reappeared in 1976 ANA at $2000.

*- Small berries - reverse C of 1840-48 series. Series VI. Bulged obv. die, the convexity showing in field at r. stars and at curls below ear, these details now weak. Borders wide and heavy. Extremely rare, first known to the numismatic world in 1879 when -you guessed it - John W. Haseltine offered a specimen (7/29/1879:101) as "the only one I ever saw." Two more were in the Linderman sale of 1888. At present I can trace five. (1) Omaha City Library ex Byron Reed bequest. (2) Lyman: 560, Martin Kortjohn, 77.3 grains. (3) Woodin:811, Malcolm Jackson, Newcomer, Col. Green, B. G. Johnson, Eric P. Newman, 77.6 grains. (4) Joseph Brobston, at $1,650 (1963). 78.1 grains. (5) "Dupont":1128, TAD:855, $4,750.79 grains.

*Gobrecht Dollars. 1836. Name below base, starry reverse. Restrike. Obv. repolished, rev. faintly or plainly cracked through bases of OLLA and tops of NITED STATES O. Later examples have high knife-rims. Silver. Dies aligned (Woodin, Newcomer, Ostheimer coin) or (Kosoff 2/55:1333, Ruby, "Gilhousen":1284). Cf. also Mehl-Clarke-NN 48:655-Kagin; KS 2/60:1527; NN 57:1106; that in Golden II; others. Some were possibly struck in 1868 on reopening of the sealed carton containing the dies, others in 1858. Reported in copper (A-W 47) but not seen since Woodside:16 (1892).

*- Obv. Name below base, starless rev. of 1838. Same die alignments, physical properties. Silver. Judd 63, A-W 48. Three known (in 1892 only one). (1) Anthon Part V:117, T.R. Garrett, J.W. Garrett: 252, $19,000, "C". (2) Woodin, Newcomer, Boyd, Farouk, Baldenhofer, Ostheimer, LM 9/68:329. (3) Major Lenox R. Lohr.

*- Name on base, starry rev. of 1836, usual type, silver, but reeded edge. A-W 41. Supposedly three known; I have seen only one, ex Granberg, Woodin, Newcomer, Baldenhofer:993.