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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;calcol, post: 3523112, member: 77639&quot;]Noticed a Judd 236 half dollar just sold (12 Mar 19) by Great Collections.&nbsp; Coin is straight-graded PR61 Plated by NGC.&nbsp; See first pic below.&nbsp; Judd J-236 is the copper version of J-235 which was minted in silver.&nbsp; Nice liberty-seated design with shield to left of liberty and her right hand resting on ax of fasces.&nbsp; Spread-eagle reverse.&nbsp; Both J-235 and J-236 are relatively common for patterns.&nbsp; Still are 4-figure coins.&nbsp; Second pic shows an un-plated coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>Neither Judd nor Pollack mention anything about plated versions of J-236.&nbsp; NGC has certified a couple more plated coins which were sold by Heritage in 2008 and 2009.&nbsp; The Heritage cataloger presumed they were plated outside the mint. I did some web searching and haven&#039;t found anything more about these plated coins.&nbsp; And I haven&#039;t found any plated J-236s certified by PCGS.&nbsp; However, PCGS has straight-graded plated Judd-1498 Barber dimes.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are patterns for which only silver-plated examples are known. Example is Judd-1732 trade dollar (only two known).&nbsp; However, Judd mentions nothing about where the plating occurred.&nbsp; There are other examples:&nbsp; All known supposed Judd-1497 Barber dimes are actually silver plated Judd-1498s (minted in copper).</p><p><br /></p><p>Appears that the grading services are giving plated patterns the benefit of the doubt or have a different standard for patterns.&nbsp; Submit a silver-plated, non-pattern large cent, and see what happens.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyone know if there is historical evidence that the mint silver-plated any patterns?</p><p><br /></p><p>Cal</p><p>[ATTACH=full]935617[/ATTACH] </p><p>[ATTACH=full]935623[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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