Lot 156
1804 C-10 R1 EF40. Double Struck Off Center. Very attractive glossy chocolate brown with frosty lighter steel brown toning in the protected areas. A great half cent with very little wear and the surfaces of a higher grade (which it very well may deserve but multiple strikes tend to blunt some of the finer details). Double struck. The first strike is 10% off center to K-8 and the second is centered on the planchet but rotated about 20 degrees relative to the first. The error is very similar to that seen on the preceding two examples, so there must have been a common flaw in the planchet ejection procedure. There are two dates and an additional UNITED STATES, plus more undertype from the first strike on both sides. Plated on page 480 in the Breen encyclopedia to illustrate the "first striking centered, second off center" type of mint error. Well, it appears he had the sequence reversed, but it's still a great mint error. MDS, Manley state 2.0. Davy #04.10.14.
Estimated Value $1,000-UP.
Ex Jim McGuigan 1/19/86.
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