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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;KBBPLL, post: 24572942, member: 104064&quot;][USER=41380]@gabepn[/USER] Got any details on this great great grandfather mint employee? Sometimes these family stories aren&#039;t entirely accurate. There are both silver and copper versions of this pattern; yours appears to be silver. </p><p><br /></p><p>I agree there should be specs available. <a href="https://uspatterns.stores.yahoo.net/18haldolpat.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://uspatterns.stores.yahoo.net/18haldolpat.html" rel="nofollow">https://uspatterns.stores.yahoo.net/18haldolpat.html</a> under J1510 says &quot;Note: The silver examples are the <b>correct weight</b> as expected. These were believed struck circa August-September per research by R.W. Julian with a design inspired by J1545 and have Morgan&#039;s initial &quot;M&quot; on Liberty&#039;s neck.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>The implication is that they weight the same as the regular 1877 half dollars - 12.5g. You could assume they&#039;re also the same dimensions - 30.6mm. The provenance and auction records at uspatterns might lead you to an auction listing that has the specs. </p><p><br /></p><p>Here is the TrueView (PR65) for one of the Heritage coins I posted earlier (which was in a NGC PF66 holder at that time). </p><p><a href="https://www.pcgs.com/cert/25522777" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.pcgs.com/cert/25522777" rel="nofollow">https://www.pcgs.com/cert/25522777</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I remain convinced that yours is fake, but it makes me curious how the dies were made, since only 5 of these are known to exist (9 if you include the copper versions). Perhaps someone was making replicas during an earlier era.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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