Lot 319
1798 S-173 R3- Style II Hair with Small 8. Fine-15. Rotated Reverse. Sharpness VF20 or slightly better but there are too many light contact marks for the sharpness grade. These include some dull nicks and fine hairline scratches on the obverse and a rim bruise at ST in STATES. Glossy chocolate and steel brown. The date and legends are all bold. M-LDS, Breen state VII, with a die crack at LI outlining a cud that later joins the tops of those letters to the rim above. In addition, a strong rim cud break at CA in AMERICA (Breen’s state IX) shows clearly on this example, thus proving Breen’s sequence of the later die states is incorrect. The reverse is rotated 50 degrees CCW. Removed from an NGC slab graded VF35 (NGC label included, and it shows the attribution and Reiver provenance). DWH #2873.
Estimated Value $750-UP.
Ex Dorothy Paschal-Ray Chatham 11/2/77-Jules Reiver, Heritage 1/24/06:19414.
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