Lot 140
1804 C-5 R4 Spiked Chin VG8. Obverse Brockage. Lightly cleaned and retoned glossy medium brown and light olive. No roughness or verdigris, only a few minor contact marks. The best identifying mark is a light diagonal hairline scratch from just left of the lower end of the hair ribbon into the field below. The strike is a full obverse brockage impression (the reverse was struck against the obverse of a previously struck piece that failed to eject from the press). The brockage impression is well balanced and deeply impressed, and those details suggest a significantly higher grade than you get from the "normal" side. Both sides are centered on the planchet and there is no rotation between the normal and incuse impressions. This piece is plated on page 483 in Breen's half cent encyclopedia to illustrate the "Brockage of Obverse" type of mint error. The attribution as C-5 is tenuous since this obverse die was used to strike several die varieties (C-3, 5, 6, 7, and 8), but the die state suggests the C-5 marriage (although C-7 or perhaps C-6 early are possibilities since there is a gentle bulge in the field before the face). The "Spiked Chin" feature is obvious. An attractive example of this dramatic type of mint error. Davy #04.5.3.
Estimated Value $1,000-UP.
Ex Fred Weinberg (Numismatics Limited) 8/1/79 at the ANA Convention. This piece was also offered in the summer catalog distributed by that firm.
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