Lot 355
1799 S-189 R2+ Normal Date Basal State-1. Terminal Die State. Slightly glossy dark chocolate and steel brown. The surfaces are mostly smooth but not perfectly so, with microscopic porosity and faint hairline scratches visible on both sides. The date is weak but easily visible, especially the 99. The portrait is mostly visible but the legends are nearly gone, only small portions of the wreath remaining. Nothing special except for the die state. There appears to be a strong die failure causing a shelf from the shoulder to the rim at the bust tip, and the area below the failure is clearly lower than the portion above. This shelf follows the die crack described by Breen as his die state VI and plated in Penny Whimsy, but no other example has been reported with this massive failure along the die crack. Unfortunately the low grade of this example makes the exact nature of this failure uncertain. DWH #3171.
Estimated Value $1,000-UP.
Ex Doug Bird 4/06-Chris McCawley 5/06.
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