(1977-78) Dollar Pattern - P-5445, GOULD

Coin Details

Description

P-5445 is a (1977-78) dollar-size test piece from the Gould Incorporated experimental series. USPatterns.com says Gould made these designs about 1978 as a possible replacement for the large Eisenhower dollar, and NGC describes the company's test tokens of 1976 to 1978, with a George Washington portrait and versions of the Great Seal, as a way to show its new planchet compositions. It is struck from the design USPatterns.com files as Pollock-5445, one of seven Gould designs, which is known from two obverse dies that differ in the diagonal lines of the Washington Monument; Burdette numbers them RB-1600 and RB-1700. USPatterns.com gives Pollock-5445 as titanium (powdered metal) and matches it to both RB-1600 and RB-1700, with over a dozen known. According to Burdette, as summarized by USPatterns.com, the planchets began with grooved edges and were struck in a plain collar, so the intended edge is plain though some pieces still show the grooves. NGC lists it as (1977-78) GOULD P-5445 $1 MS.

Cross References

Pollock-5445; Burdette RB-1600; Burdette RB-1700