Lot 21
1793 S-10 R4 Wreath Cent, Vine & Bars Edge PCGS graded F12 Off-Center Error. Glossy medium brown and chocolate. The surfaces are decent and the eye appeal is nice for the grade, but a glass reveals uniform microscopic roughness covering both sides. Struck 10% off center to K-2 leaving portions of the legend off the planchet but the date remains complete and strong. A strong indent created by the short post that held the collar in place on the press is located on the unstruck portion of the planchet left of the date. 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 obverse because the reverse was the hammer die, and the hammer die drove the off-center planchet into the post and obverse die during the strike. (A nearly-identical mint error on a 1793 half cent was in the famous Missouri Cabinet Collection and was sold as lot #2 in the companion "Davy Sale" we conducted on 9/19/2010.) Mint errors on 1793 cents, regardless of type, are extremely rare. And to the best of our knowledge this is the only one known with a collar post indent. According to Walter Breen in his large cent encyclopedia this is one of only 3 or 4 off-center 1793 cents that were known to him. Our grade is VG10. EDS, Breen state I (as best we can tell). The Vine & Bars edge device is version (b). Weight 202.5 grains. The attribution, 10% Off-Center Error, and Neiswinter provenance are noted on the PCGS label. Estimate Value $8,500 - UP
Ex Gary Young-Milton Cohen-Natalie Halpern-NASCA Auction 2/1983:496-unknown-Heritage 2004 ANA Sale, lot 8273-Chris McCawley 1/2005-Jim Neiswinter Collection.
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