Lot 125
1794 S-30 R1 G6. A point or two sharper, especially on the obverse, but the surfaces are covered with very fine roughness on all but the highpoints, which are smooth. No verdigris and the only post-minting contact marks of any significance are some old hairline scratches hidden in the toning on both sides. The toning is an attractive and slightly glossy medium brown and light chocolate blending to medium chocolate brown in protected areas. This cent was struck 10% off center to K-2 leaving most of LIBERTY and AMERICA off the planchet. The date, however, is complete and clear. In addition there is a collar-post indent on the unstruck portion of the planchet right of the D in UNITED. This small but strong indent was created by the short post or pin that held the collar in place on the press. The planchet just happened to be positioned off center in the direction of this post. The upper end of the post was slightly above the level of the coining chamber and the force of the strike created a deep, well defined impression of the post on the unstruck part of the planchet. The indent occurred on the reverse because the obverse was the hammer die, and the hammer die drove the off-center planchet into the post and reverse die during the strike. A similar collar-post indent error is present on the off-center 1793 S-10 offered earlier in Jim Neiswinter's portion of this sale. We have also seen a similar mint error on a 1793 half cent that was in the famous Missouri Cabinet Collection and was sold as lot #2 in the companion "Davy Sale" we conducted on 9/19/2010. These three are the only "off center with collar-post indent" errors known to us, and Breen was unaware of any when he wrote his encyclopedias on half cents and large cents. An extremely rare type of mint error worthy of the most advanced collection of early error strikes. Estimate Value $6,000 - UP
Ex Chris McCawley-Jim Neiswinter 4/2007-Dan Trollan Collection.
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