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1922 August Bechtler Restrike Half Eagle
NGC PF-64
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1922 August Bechtler Restrike Half Eagle
Several generations of the Bechtler Family engaged in the minting of gold coins bearing their own name, at a time when such a practice was still legal. From 1831 until about 1850, first Alt Christoph, then sons August and Christopher Jr. maintained this family business located in the gold-rich hills of North Carolina. There they minted gold dollars, quarter eagles ($2.50) and half eagles ($5) from crude, hand made dies, utilizing bullion mined in North Carolina and northern Georgia. The five-dollar piece illustrated here is a restrike made from dies of August Bechtler which somehow survived into the 20th Century. Its supposed date of coinage is taken from Walter Breen's Encyclopedia. For the record, however, pioneer gold authority Donald Kagin assigned a date of c.1908 for Henry Chapman's restrikes of the Bechtler half eagles. The dies for this variety were originally used as early as 1842 and possibly as late as 1850. For this edition, the rusted and slightly sunken dies were polished to a brilliant, proof finish. The number restruck went unrecorded, but of the ten pieces believed to exist, this delightful specimen is one of the nicer examples.
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