1868 Cent

HBCC#:

6067

Breen#:

n/a

BD#:

n/a

Judd#:

605

Pollock#:

670

A series of low-denomination nickel coinage was proposed in a bill submitted to Congress by Representative William Kelley of Pennsylvania. These would be legal tender up to one dollar and were intended to provide a coinage for redemption of fractional currency notes. The bill proposed coins of one-cent, three-cents, five-cents, and ten-cents. These patterns have the obverse design essentially identical to the regular-issue three cent nickel coins already in production. The one-cent and three-cent patterns have two different reverse designs, this variety with a wreath very similar to that used on Flying Eagle cents a decade earlier.

Provenance:

Purchased from Joe Flynn, Sr. Coin Co., August 10, 1971.

Obverse:

Remarkably similar to the regular-issue nickel three-cent pieces of the date, second 8 in date embedded in lowest hair curl.

Reverse:

Roman numeral I within center of wreath of corn, cotton, tobacco, and wheat, the wreath being very similar to that seen on circulating gold dollars and other issues of the era.

Commentary:

"Was NoVo 23, Patt 425. Inv. error, not J-698."