1854 Gold Half Dollar - BG-1309
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Description
This octagonal half dollar piece, dated 1854, is BG-1309 in the Breen-Gillio catalogue: a later copy, not a California piece of the 1852-1882 period. Breen-Gillio list a number of later copies of California fractional gold among the BG-1300 numbers; Locke (2013) separates the Kroll copies from others whose maker is not known. Locke (2013) lists BG-1309 among the copies of the octagonal half dollar BG-305 that are not traced to Kroll. NGC census: "\"1854\" OCTAG LIBERTY BG-1309 G50C". Catalogue number: BG-1309 (Breen-Gillio). PCGS number 516784.
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BG-1309
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