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PCGS Number: 537359 Coin Date: 1875 Denomination (Short): P$5 Denomination (Long): Pattern 5 Dollars Variety: Gold Variety 2: J-1438 Desg: PR Composition: Gold Strike Type: Proof Coinage Type: Pattern Coinage Years: 1875 Mint Location: Philadelphia Edge: Reeded Obverse Description: Barber’s Liberty Head (“Sailor Head”) facing left, wearing a coronet inscribed LIBERTY, hair tied back with a ribbon; similar to the motif used on the J-1392 twenty-cent piece. Reverse Description: Eagle similar to that used on the trade dollar and twenty-cent piece, perched, holding three arrows and an olive branch, E PLURIBUS UNUM in field above eagle, IN GOD WE TRUST on ribbon below. Around border, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA / FIVE DOLLARS. General Notes: 1875 $5. The purpose of this and the similar $10 pattern is not known, for no record has been encountered of any interest in changing the current Liberty Head or Coronet design for the $5. PCGS #: 537359 NGC ID: 26WV
