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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;okbustchaser, post: 20168139, member: 72642&quot;]Not high grade--not a key date --although a key die marriage for the year.&nbsp; The story...</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>It barely makes Good and has graffiti dating from the year 1845. It cost me solid XF money (Plus my max bid was almost twice what I got it for). But it was the last (achievable by me) die marriage for my 1827 set. It&#039;s estimated that only about 35 or so examples exist in any grade--most of which are damaged. When I bought it back in 2009 I had been looking for an affordable O-144 for the previous 19 years.<img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v395/bustchaser/1827scan/144o.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v395/bustchaser/1827scan/144r.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>The inscription in the upper right field reads &quot;Cadet Robertson 1845. In the left (behind Liberty) Robertson is repeated.</p><p><br /></p><p>A note: As gentlemen military cadets were expected to never be completely without funds. Thus it became a common practice to carry a pocket piece--often from one&#039;s birth year. A search of West Point archives comes up with Beverly Robertson--born June 1827, appointed to USMA1845, and graduated class of 1849. He went on to become a CSA general during the Civil War. One has to wonder if this was his coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>Update from when I first posted about this coin.&nbsp; In 2019 I located a descendant of General Robertson living in Tennessee and asked about his ancestor.&nbsp; After a series of letters I gifted him with the coin and it rejoined the family.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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