Lot 165
1797 C-1 R2 1 Above 1 Variety G4. Double Struck with Small Offset. Sharpness at least VG8 but covered with fine roughness. There are a few short scratches hidden in the toning under the lowest curls and traces of reddish verdigris at OF-A, but it takes a good glass to find these defects. Slightly glossy chocolate and steel with splashes of darker steel and olive toning on the reverse. Double struck. The offset (shift) between those strikes was small, perhaps a millimeter or less to K-1. Nonetheless, the doubling is obvious on the date and portrait with weaker doubling elsewhere on both sides. The 1 in the date is missing but the remaining digits read 77997, although some of the digits overlap a bit. Late die state. The swelling on the obverse is clear. Weight 88.4 grains. Davy #97.1.23.
Estimated Value $200-UP.
Ex Don Valenziano 2/4/2003 (previously from a Superior auction).
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