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1849 Copper Pattern Dollar - Bowie Kagin Unlisted

Strike Type
1849 Territorial coin

Coin Details

Year
1849
Denomination
Territorial
Strike Type
Regular Strike
Series
California Gold (1849-1855)
Composition
Copper
Edge
Plain

Auction Record

Price realized
$63,250
Sold
Grade
EF45
Auction house
Stack's

Description

This is the copper J. H. Bowie dollar of 1849, which PCGS lists as a pattern not in Kagin and NGC as Kagin number 1. Nothing is recorded of J. H. Bowie beyond the pieces with his name. Adams describes a copper dollar reading J. H. BOWIE, 1 DOL., 24 G. and 24 C., with a pine tree between CAL. and GOLD on the other side and a plain edge, and knew of no gold example. PCGS number 10032.

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