Lot 1232
1799 $10 Capped Bust. Small obverse stars. SEGS graded MS-61. Wide even date, star 9 touches Y. Scratched/Retooled on the face. A rather pleasing looking coin although expertly worked on as described. Our grade is sharpness of AU-58.
The obverse on this variety has 13 stars divided eight left and five right. Stars one and 13 on about the same horizontal line and both fairly close to central device. LIBERTY closely spaced and shifted right, with Y touching star 9 and L nearly touching cap. The reverse die shows a heraldic eagle with no tongue. A star left of the beak touches ribbon at bottom point. Tip of leaf touches base of I in AMERICA and first A of AMERICA is close to wing without touching. Die State: Obverse cracked from rim through star 8 into field behind head of Liberty and from rim through upright of L to top of cap. Reverse perfect.
This coinage date provides the largest selection of die varieties among early eagles. From 1795 to 1804, a total of 34 die marriages are known, with ten of these dated 1799. Walter Breen authored a monograph covering varieties of this issue, published in the late 1960s and based on preliminary work by collectors earlier in the 1900s, to be followed by Anthony Taraszka's masterful die variety book in recent years, the standard reference today.
Estimated Value $9,000 - 10,000.
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