This obverse, by Christian Gobrecht, is similar to the one used on 1838 eagles but facing the other way. This particular design using the regular 'Small Letters' reverse die of 1839 is the only original produced from this obverse die. The Judd and Adams & Woodin books state that seven are known. Partial pedigrees for them are as follows: 1) Smithsonian 2) Byron Reed, Durham Western Heritage Museum 3) Gable?, Brand, Judd, Kosoff 2/70, B. Johnson-Hughes 1/79, Fred-B/M 11/95, Heritage 7/03 - PCGS64 - illustrated above. 4) Stickney, Jenks, P.C. Clark, Lohr, Cox, 66 ANA, Witham-Auction 81, Superior 5/04 - NGC64 5) Woodin, Col Green, J.M. Wade, 71 ANA, Harry W. Bass Jr. Research Foundation 6) H.P. Smith, Clapp, Eliasberg, 99 ANA - PCGS64. 7) Miller, Brock, University of Pennsylvania, Norweb?, New Netherlands 41st sale of September 1953. The unique? copper example J94/P106 is important as it is one of the first copper die trials of a pattern design. It first appeared in the 1864 McCoy sale as lot 1859, later to the Woodin, Farouk and Cox collections. Photo courtesy of Heritage.