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a) Copper Nickel J-302
1) PR-67 Cameo NGC. Stack's 6/91:627; [|"Lemus" Collection; Heritage "FUN" 1/09:1596]; Bob R. Simpson. 2) PR-66 Cameo PCGS. Breen plate coin. Stack's "Anderson-Dupont" 11/54:1174; Kosoff "Lahrman" 2/63:918; Paramount "Grand Central" 11/74:352; Bowers & Ruddy "Scott" 6/75:1234; Superior "Adams & McMillian":10/92:1174 ; [|Bowers & Merena "St. Louis Rarities" 5/07:304]; ; Dr. Tim Larson; [|Heritage 8/09:1381]; ; Dr Tim Larson; EERC (2010). 3) PR-65 PCGS. B&R "Lexington" 1/94:1540 ($20,900); EERC 5/94; "Texas Collection"; [|B&M "Baltimore" 11/07:4010]. 4) PR-64 PCGS. Dr. J.H. Judd; B&R Rare Coin Review #21-25 1974-76; B&R "Willing" 6/76:1385; Stack's "Cincinnati" 6/77:371; NERCG "Metro" 3/79:459 5) PR-63 NGC. F.C.C. Boyd; Kossoff "Illustrated History", 1962:263; Kagin's 3/69; Kagin's "Metro" 7/74; 782; Kagins "ANA" 8/77:2168; Kagin's "Metropolitan Washington" 7/79:886; ;Bob R. Simpson; [|Heritage "ANA" 8/10:3703]. 6) AU "Details" NGC. Goldberg's "Pre-Long Beach" 5/11:1268.

From Heritage "Lemus" sale 1/2009 : A letter from William F. Hidden to the editor of //The Numismatist// in the December 1903 issue reports the discovery of Judd-302. Hidden writes, "This little L is extremely small, but is intentionally there to record Longacre's artistic design of workmanship. ... I cannot learn of any example but this one of mine and it is a Proof. It came from our old friend, Wm. P. Brown, among a lot of Proofs." The letter is dated November 8, 1903. The first auction appearance of Judd-303 (the same design, but in oroide) seems to predate this report by a few months. According to the ninth edition of the Judd pattern reference, an example was offered in the Comstock Collection (Lyman Low, 6/1903).

b) Bronze J-301
1) PR-65RB PCGS. Rev die rotated 30 deg. CCW. Col. E.H.R. Green; B.G. Johnson; Numismatics Ltd. 6/74:1000; Numismatic Galleries (Abe Kosoff); ; EERC (2012). 2) PR-65RB PCGS. Stack's "Frasier"3/78:527; William Doyle Galleries "Loy Lauder"12/83:521; Bowers & Merena "Tower Hill" 9/93:3056; EERC 7/94; Texas Collection; EERC (2007); Dr. Tim Larson; Legend Numismatics; Bob R. Simpson. 3) PR-64RB PCGS. Dr. J.H. Judd; Bowers & Ruddy "Rare Coin Review" #21-25, 1974-1976; B&R "Willing" 6/76:1384; B&R "RCR" #28,29, 1977; B&R "Harte" 11/77:3241; B&R "RCR" #30, 1978; Graded PR63RB in 2008, regraded to PR64RB soon after; Goldberg's 2/11:2032.

c) Aluminum J-304
1) PR-64 PCGS. Bowers & Merena "Patterson" 3/85:2658; A.M.Kagin; Dr. Stanley Spurgeon. 2) (PR-64 PCGS?) Stack's "Anderson-Dupont"; Dr. J.H. Judd; Bowers & Ruddy "Rare Coin Review" #21-25, 1974-1976; B&R "Willing" 6/76:1386; Stack's "Cincinnati" 6/77:372; 3) PR-63 NGC (earlier PR-62 PCGS). [|Heritage "Baltimore" 7/03:9952].

d) Oroide J-303
1) Lyman Low " Comstock" 6/1903; J.C. Mitchelson; Connecticut State Library.