The so-called transitional dollar using the reverse of 1866-1891. These and the other "with motto" patterns of this date and also 1863 and 1864 are, for the most part, restrikes made circa 1869 and into the early 1870s and offered with restrikes of other denominations in complete sets. The first definite sales occurance for an 1865 with motto set was in the October 1870 Mason & Company sale of the Fewsmith collection. A possible earlier listing may be Cogan's September 1869 sale. It is important to note that 2 different reverses were used to strike these and 2 different obverse die states, one with rust by the 9th star exist which makes it more likely that at least some of these are, in fact, 1865 products. For more on this, see Stacks 11/2008 sale. Examples of this were struck as follows: Silver J434/P507 with about a dozen known. The Fairfield, Bass Foundation example is overstruck on an 1866 or 1853 dollar. The illustrated example is the former Eliasberg piece. Copper J435/P508 with about a dozen known. Aluminum J436/P509. This piece is unconfirmed today although the quarter and half dollar do exist with each being unique. Photo courtesy of Bowers and Merena.