Lot 25
1793 S-11c R3- Wreath Cent with Lettered Edge PCGS Genuine VF Details Cleaned. Lettered edge variety with a single leaf following DOLLAR. Sharpness VF but covered with microscopic roughness under slightly glossy olive brown and reddish steel toning. No verdigris and only a couple minor marks. The notable ones are a small planchet chip on the rim at the L in LIBERTY (as struck), a small nick on the rim under the 1 in the date, a few faint scratches at the 93, and a dull rim nick at the T in UNITED. The chocolate brown and steel toning looks original, so perhaps the PCGS folks meant to say Environmental Damage, not Cleaned. MDS, Breen state III, with obvious die clashmarks on the obverse including an incuse RICA from AMERICA in the field before the face. Apparently the dies came together with great force without a planchet in position for striking thus damaging the dies. A number of cents were struck from the strongly clashed dies before they were removed and lapped to minimize the clashmarks. Higher grade examples of this die state show almost all the letters of the incuse (and retrograde) AMERICA in the field before the portrait with the sharpness of those letters descending from the last A (wedged between the forehead and T in LIBERTY) to the first A (in the field before the neck), which is never clearly visible. The date and legends are complete and clear. Our grade is net F12. Weight 199.1 grains. The attribution and Neiswinter provenance are noted on the PCGS label. Estimate Value $5,000 - UP
Ex The Palos Verdes Collection, Heritage 1/4/2017:3108-Jim Neiswinter Collection.
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