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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;johnmilton, post: 7834374, member: 101855&quot;]The obverse of the &quot;dollar&quot; in the OP looks a lot like the pattern for the $50 gold piece or &quot;half union.&quot; Here is a picture of that piece from &quot;Wikipedia.&quot; </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1346743[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>The coin was the center of a scandal that grew out of trade that future Treasury Secretary, William Wooden, made with the mint. He had both of the $50 gold piece patterns and the mint wanted them for the national collection. He gave them the coins in exchange for a &quot;trunk full&quot; of U.S. pattern coins. Wooden later wrote a book on patterns with Edger Adams circa 1913.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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