Lot 245
1797 S-136 R3-. EF-40. Partially beaded edge, Breen II. Glossy light steel brown with frosty tan in protected areas and darker steel brown toning on the highpoints. There is a very light dusting of carbon on the left top of the 9 and a couple trivial contact marks at the E in ONE. LDS, Breen state V, with all the die cracks on the reverse described for that state, clear swelling at ER in AMERICA, and the reverse die blunted. The obverse displays many very tiny planchet chips or lint marks, mostly in the fields, and LIBER are blunted by foreign matter stuck on the die. An attractive cent in spite of the lint marks. DWH #0162.
Estimated Value $4,000-UP.
Ex Central States Numismatic Society 5/11/74:847-C. Douglas Smith 1981-Jack Beymer-Ed Kucia 9/3/88.
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