Lot 136
1803 C-4 R4 VG8. Double Struck Obverse with Rotation/Reverse Brockage Maker. Glossy chocolate and steel brown with some lighter reddish chocolate toning in protected areas on the reverse. No roughness or verdigris, only trivial contact marks of no significance. Double struck on the obverse. The strongest strike is centered on the planchet, but there is a second impression that is slightly off center to the bottom and rotated about 35 degrees CW relative to the first. The neck and bust from the second strike are clearly visible on the lower part of the portrait above the 3, and the outline of the back of Ms Liberty's head shows in her hair below BE in LIBERTY. The reverse, however, displays no trace of doubling. This suggests the reverse was struck into a new blank planchet during the second strike, thus creating an off center incuse brockage impression on the second planchet. The reverse is not upset. Davy #03.4.6.
Estimated Value $400-UP.
Ex Paul Munson-Roger S. Cohen, Jr., Superior 2/2/92:127.
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