Click to enlargeJ565/P626

Longacre's Liberty obverse with headdress combined with a reverse with a six pointed star at the top struck in nickel.

Only 2 examples of this pattern are confirmed. The pedigrees in Pollock and Taxay are incorrect.

The Parmelee coin was purchased by Byron Reed and is now in the Durham Western Heritage Museum. The other is ex Woodside, Brenner-1914 ANS exhibit, Judd, Bowers and Merena 6/84, Superior 2/87.

Its first occurance was in Haseltine's 4/1870 of some Idler patterns. The Colonel Cohen example, which may be the same as the Idler coin was purchased by Haseltine. Parmelee was at the Cohen sale and did not purchase it there thus it is likely that the Col Cohen piece is in fact the Woodside coin.

There was also an example in Mehl's 1/42 sale which if it is not the same as the Woodside coin would be a third.

Several splashers of this design are known as follows:

Obverse hub trials in copper: JA1867-8/P3308 and JA1867-9/P3311.

Obverse die trial in lead JA1867-10/P3314.

Reverse die trials in lead JA1867-12/P3320 and copper JA1867-13/P3323.

The image is from the Bowers and Merena Dodson sale.