Circa 1860 copy of the Getz "Half Dollar" by William Idler. Musante GW-27, Baker-25M. Copper, Bronzed. MS-63 (PCGS).33.9 mm. 267.9 grains. Deep mahogany bronze with faint golden highlights in the obverse fields and traces of pale blue iridescence close to the rims. Nice reflectivity in the fields. Struck on a slightly flawed planchet with a small intact lamination just above Washington’s head. Baker number in red on the edge.Ex William Spohn Baker Collection, to the Historical Society of Pennsylvania by bequest, November 15, 1897.
