1965 Half Dollar Pattern - J-2132
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The 1965 Half Dollar Pattern - J-2132 is the Martha Washington half-dollar-size metallurgical trial in copper-nickel clad. The Philadelphia Mint struck these test pieces for the Battelle Memorial Institute's study of replacement alloys for the Treasury, reported on February 12, 1965 (Coin World). The Martha Washington obverse is by Edward R. Grove and the Mount Vernon reverse by Philip Fowler, and the pieces are dated 1759, the year George Washington married Martha (Coin World). USPatterns.com counts over a dozen, and one is known struck on a clad quarter planchet; it is not known where they were struck, at the Mint or elsewhere. The silver-clad half dollar of the same design, J-2134, is known from the six pieces in the Smithsonian's Lucite blocks. NGC lists it as 1759(1965) J-2132 50C.
Rarity Notes
over a dozen known (USPatterns.com)
Cross References
Judd-2132; Pollock-2083
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