Lot 20
1793 S-10 R4 Wreath Cent, Vine & Bars Edge PCGS graded F15. Medium steel brown and chocolate with lighter brown toning on the obverse highpoints. The highpoints are smooth but the fields and protected areas are covered with uniform extremely faint granularity. No verdigris and only a few small marks. The notable ones are a pair of ticks on the forehead, a very shallow pit in the field near the dentil beads before the nose, and a small lamination between the N & I in UNITED (as struck). Later die state, Breen II early. Most of the border beads right of the mouth are distorted into a rather straight line nearly 6mm long, and that area has sunken. The rim cud over UNITE is more pronounced touching 7 border beads and extending from the right side of the U to the center of the E. This more common late state is called the "Injured Rim" due to the rim flaw opposite the mouth, and this feature can be used to instantly identify the variety. In addition there is a less obvious die crack curving from the point of the bust to the rim. The date and legends are complete and clear. Has version (b) of the Vine & Bars edge device. Our grade is VG10. The attribution and Neiswinter provenance are noted on the PCGS label. Weight 179.6 grains. PCGS population 1; 11 finer for the variety. Estimate Value $6,000 - UP
Ex Chris McCawley 5/2006-Jim Neiswinter Collection.
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