Lot 201
1804 Restrike. EF-40. Mint state sharpness, but there is a "C" cut or punched into the planchet under the U in UNITED. The only other defects are some very faint hairlines in the obverse fields and a swipe of reddish chocolate brown toning through NT in CENT. Frosty medium brown with darker steel brown toning on the highpoints. LDS with both dies heavily rusted and lapped, and the reverse is rotated 90 degrees CCW from a normal head-to-foot orientation. These "restrikes" were struck outside the mint sometime prior to 1868 using discarded mint dies (a modified obverse of 1803 Sheldon-261 and the reverse die for 1820 Newcomb-12).
Estimated Value $400 - 600.
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| Realized $529 |
