Lot 134
1803 C-3 R2 VF20+. Double Struck Reverse/Obverse Brockage Maker. Attractive glossy light olive and chocolate brown with traces of frosty luster showing in protected areas, mostly on the reverse. The surfaces are smooth and offer excellent eye appeal for the grade, which is close to VF25. Just a few trivial contact marks, including a faint hairline scratch arcing under ALF in HALF. The reverse is double struck with a small offset down to the left between impressions, perhaps half a millimeter (slightly more than the width of a dentil). The doubling is very clear on the leaves, UNITED, and MERICA. The obverse, however, shows no evidence of doubling. This suggests it was pressed into a new blank planchet rather than against the obverse die during the second strike, thereby creating an obverse brockage on that planchet. Davy #03.3.11.
Estimated Value $600-UP.
Ex Don Valenziano 6/12/95.
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