Lot 181
1804 C-13 R1 Plain 4 without Stems AU58. Double Struck over Reverse Brockage. The obverse is lustrous light steel brown with darker chocolate brown toning covering most of the lower half of that side. The reverse is lustrous uniform chocolate brown. The only defect is a spot of darker toning in the drapery over the 04 in the date. Great eye appeal, just the faintest hint of rub on the highest points from mint state. Struck over a reverse brockage strike with incuse (brockage) designs showing clearly on the upper half of the obverse of the normal strike. The normal (not incuse) reverse from the first strike is strongest around the fraction where part of the wreath is obvious. The second strike was rotated 90 degrees CCW relative to the first. A very attractive double mint error, so nice that Breen used it to illustrate the "Overstruck on a reverse brockage" type of mint error on page 484 of his half cent encyclopedia. EDS, Manley state 1.0. Davy #04.13.11.
Estimated Value $1,000-UP.
Ex Julian Leidman 11/9/81.
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