1836 Gobrecht Dollar

I got the opportunity this afternoon to handle a neat coin. This is the J-60 pattern dollar better known as the Gobrecht dollar. I was able to snap some pictures of the piece and I wanted to share. I believe the coin to be accurately graded as a PF62. There are some light hairlines and the coin is a bit weakly struck. Still not something you see every day!

Enjoy!

 

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Whoa nice coin!!

 

I'd love to handle me one of those. Stellar piece.
You ever own a Gobrecht, Matt?

 

Never personally owned one, no. I have handled 3 as consignment pieces and several more at large shows just to experience a coin in hand that you seldom see. They sure are neat to stare at for a few minutes.

 

wow thats a amazing coin. One could only dream...

 

That's a cool coin in AG, much less PF 62. Super cool & thanks for sharing...Mike

 

WOW, that is one sexy coin!

 

Great coin and photo -- thanks for sharing.

Hairlines from a cleaning at some point?

 

I would tend to agree with Doug here. These coins in the early days were sometimes sat in display boxes or even on little stands for display. It's conceivable that the coin would have been handled by it's various owners and coin handling techniques have certainly changed over the years.

 

Scintillating ! Congrats, LD !

Truly historical. Love that lean "no stars" look. Guess I'll have to stick to the 1837 dimes and h10c...

 

I've always been a huge fan of the Seated Liberty design and to see it on a coin as large as this silver dollar is breath-taking. Absolutely beautiful coin!! Congratulations on the pick-up! :hail:

Cheers!

 

That's my favorite US coin design. Thanks for posting it!

 

One nice coin and I am sure it is much nicer in hand. Beauty of a coin. The only one I saw at the local shop was raw and a 20 to 40k coin. It was a beauty - made me nervous to just hold it in a 2x2 flip. I could not imagine dropping it an putting a rim ding in it. I held it for a second then very carefully handed it back.

 

I'm always suprised by how many people like this design. Its largely an imitation of Britanica poses that the British Coins had. The little girl designs, I think, are more American and original in nature.

Ruben

 

BTW - the Flying Eagle though, is a personal favorite design.

Ruben

 

It's not his he just got the pictures. Read the first post.

 

Considering the rarity, that is perfectly acceptable...

Ruben

 

Acceptable...for sure.

I just wanted to clear the air on the people that didn't even read the first post and just looked at the picture.

 

It probably got the hairlines from light circulation. Although all of these coins were struck as proofs the were released for circulation by the Bank of the United States.