Lot 242
1808 C-3 R1 F15. Flipover Double Strike/Reverse Brockage Maker. Glossy chocolate and steel brown with traces of lighter brown in protected areas around the portrait. No notable marks and the surfaces are nice, but a glass reveals traces of microscopic roughness on the face. Double struck, and the planchet was flipped over between strikes. Both impressions are properly centered. The "200" from the fraction of one strike shows clearly at the Y in LIBERTY while parts of the wreath and ED from UNITED show on the bust and neck. The EN from CENT also shows at the ear. There is no undertype visible on the reverse, but there is a depression just inside the rim at STATES OF A that suggests the reverse was pressed against a blank planchet creating a reverse brockage. An alternative explanation that also makes sense is that two planchets were inserted at the same time resulting in a uniface reverse strike on this planchet, which was then reinserted into the press and struck again with the obverse over the reverse. This would also explain the depression at the top of the reverse. Either way, this is a neat error that offers excellent eye appeal. MDS, Manley state 3.0. The reverse is rotated 10 degrees CW. Davy #08.3.34.
Estimated Value $800-UP.
Ex Tom Reynolds 4/19/2002.
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