Lot 532
1807 Draped Bust Dime. PCGS graded MS-64. The final date in this elegant, highly symbolic Heraldic eagle series. And this one is intriguing, even if it is just a Type date. How so? The dies clashed when they made this one, transferring some of the deepest details of the reverse onto the obverse fields, yet nothing of the obverse appears on the other side. Then too there's the strike--bold and crisp even on the eagle's neck and wing feathers, and especially so on the shield and on Liberty's locks. But the borders "fade away" from the design because they are softly struck. The final obverse star has one bifurcated tip. Marks? Not many, hardly any on the reverse. On Liberty's face is a faint scratch, and right by the centering dot there's a tiny gouge. So the MS64 grade seems very fair. The color? Mostly silvery, bright in the centers, light gold and having some brighter blue on the peripheries. Can you see it now? If so, you will realize how desirable this specimen is.
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