Lot 2103
1807 $5 Capped Bust. ICG graded MS-64. This coin is a wonderful example which possess bright yellow gold with frosty luster. A few minor surface marks are mixed with heavier adjustment marks on the obverse. Softly struck, no doubt because of the multiple die cracks on the obverse, coupled with the effects of the adjustment marks. Similar on the reverse, with softness on the left side of the shield and into the star field above. We note a heavy die crack down from the B in LIBERTY through Liberty's mouth to star twelve, another up through the right serif of 1, another between the first two stars into the field, a heavier crack from the rim to Liberty's cap. The reverse die has a crack from the arrows to the shield. An important example for the specialist.
Estimated Value $15,000-UP.
Ex: A-Mark Coin Co., March 16, 1978; Bowers and Merena's Harry Bass II Sale, October 1999, lot 783.
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