1964 Quarter Pattern - P-5340, INCO
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Description
The 1964 Quarter Pattern - P-5340, INCO is a quarter-size test piece made for the International Nickel Company in 1964. It carries Gilroy Roberts's Merica portrait and laboratory design, the second of INCO's three quarter-size designs (USPatterns.com), with hubs made in 1964 by Medallic Art Company. Pollock-5340 has a plain edge and is 95% nickel and 5% silicon over a permalloy core (79 nickel, 16 iron, 5 molybdenum), and USPatterns.com also lists it as Pollock-5370; pieces often have NiSip, NiSi or 11-14 engraved in the right obverse field. USPatterns.com lists the same design in about thirty alloy and edge combinations, from 100% iron to German silver. NGC lists it as 1964 INCO P-5340 25C. The sources read do not give its Burdette (RB) number.
Cross References
Pollock-5340; Pollock-5370
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