1872 Dollar Patterns

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The 1872 Dollar Patterns page groups the dollar patterns dated 1872 in the Trade Dollar Era Patterns (1871-1873) series, all struck at the Philadelphia Mint. They include William Barber's Amazonian dollar (J-1205 to J-1207); his copy of Longacre's Indian Princess design on trade dollar planchets (J-1208 and J-1209); commercial dollar patterns that pair Longacre's or Barber's seated Liberty, or the regular Seated Liberty die, with a reverse reading COMMERCIAL DOLLAR (J-1212 to J-1219a); the first patterns with TRADE DOLLAR on the reverse (J-1220 to J-1223); strikings from the regular silver dollar dies (J-1210 and J-1211); and the gold dollar patterns, both the Amazonian gold dollar (J-1224 to J-1226) and strikings from the regular gold dollar dies (J-1227 and J-1228). The coinage bill that became the Coinage Act of 1873 was still before Congress throughout the year.