Lot 2026
1797 C-2 R3 Overstruck. VF-25. Choice glossy chocolate brown with lighter steel brown toning covering the devices. No roughness or verdigris, and the only marks are a thin line at the top of the Y in LIBERTY left from undertype on the planchet and a shallow planchet chip in the dentils left of the date, both marks as struck. There is some additional undertype near the dentils at the top of the reverse as well as a thin planchet cutter mark in the dentils over TES, but the nature of the undertype is unknown (although a good guess would be a cut-down Talbot Allum & Lee cent dated 1794 or 1795). A very attractive early half cent.
Estimated Value $2,500 - 3,500.
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| Realized $4,140 |
