(1997-8) Model Schuler Bimetallic Test Piece MS(PCGS#826487)
(1997-8) Model Schuler Bimetallic Test Piece MS (PCGS#826487)
November 2020 U.S. Coins Auction
- 拍卖行
- Stack's Bowers
- 批号
- 8432
- 等级
- MS64
- 价格
- 7,869
- 详细说明
- Undated (1997-1998) Schuler Bimetallic Coinage Test Piece. Copper-Nickel Ring with Brass Insert. Plain Edge. MS-64 (PCGS). Obv:Insert with a head facing left, wearing Phrygian cap of Liberty, the ring around inscribed EXPERIMENTAL / MODEL. Rev:Insert with an eagle perched right, the ring around inscribed R&D / PROJECT, with additional Braille characters at left and right indicating the reverse side. An interesting piece produced by Schuler, the German manufacturer of the Schuler coining presses that are widely used in mints throughout the world. The firm's complex presses, in fact, are used in striking bimetallic coins. According to the firm's website, theirs is, "a press for hole-piercing, joining, coining, and separating…applicable as coin minting press for round, non-round, and bi-metal coins, as a joining press, hole piercing press, and as a press to separate ring and core in the case of bi-metal coins taken out of circulation for recycling." Research by Phillip Barnhart indicates that these bimetallic test pieces were struck in 1997 or 1998 by Shuler in their Michigan offices as demonstration pieces for the U.S. Mint and for exhibition at U.S. Congressional hearings. The test pieces had two purposes: to demonstrate the addition of Braille elements to coinage in response to concerns of the Alliance for the Blind, and to promote the firm's own technology to produce bimetallic coins as the U.S. Mint was investigating ideas for a new dollar coin. It is believed that approximately 20 pieces were struck. PCGS# 826487. Click here for certification details from PCGS. Image with the PCGS TrueView logo is obtained from and is subject to a license agreement with Collectors Universe, Inc. and its divisions PCGS and PSA.