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1 Dollar '1839 Gobrecht Dollar' Pattern
| Issuer | United States Mint |
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| Year | 1839 |
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| Weight | 26.73 g |
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| Obverse lettering | LIBERTY 1839 |
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| Mintage | 1839 - 104) Silver Reeded edge - 1839 - 105) Silver Plain edge - 1839 - 106) Copper Reeded edge - 1839 - 107) Copper Plain edge - |
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The 1839 Gobrecht dollars occupy a genuinely ambiguous space in American numismatics — struck as patterns to test Christian Gobrecht's revised design ahead of the Seated Liberty dollar series, yet distributed to collectors and officials in numbers sufficient to blur the line between pattern and issue. Congress had mandated a redesign of the dollar following years of dissatisfaction with the Capped Bust type, and Gobrecht, the Mint's second engraver, had been refining his dies since 1836.
The four Judd varieties differ principally in die alignment and planchet metal, details that matter enormously to specialists since restrikes — made by the Mint itself decades later — complicate original attribution. Distinguishing originals from Mint-made restrikes requires examining die orientation against documented contemporary records.