Product Overview
Judd-1220, listed as a High R-7 (4-6) known, only 5 graded at PCGS and NONE at NGC. This has to be the worst known, it literally has been run over by a train. The coin is somewhat light, a piece is missing. The design elements are clear and the edge is reeded. An interesting conversation piece for the trade dollar collector.
One has to think who owned this coin? What would possess them to think that putting on the train tracks was a good idea? A common practice back in the day would be to put the coin on railroad tracks for "death trains" for former president's such as Lincoln. According to Google, "Several U.S. presidents had funeral trains, with Abraham Lincoln (1865) being the first to have his body transported by rail. Other presidents who had funeral trains include James A. Garfield (1881), Ulysses S. Grant (1885), William McKinley (1901), Warren G. Harding (1923), Franklin D. Roosevelt (1945), Dwight D. Eisenhower (1969), and George H.W. Bush (2018)". Perhaps there was another monumental train event in the day?
This coin is guaranteed genuine. However, NGC would not grade it, and ANACS would, but it is too big to fit in their holders. It is not a modern counterfeit.