Lot 245
1808 C-3 R1 F15. Double Struck Off Center/Off Center Brockage Maker. Sharpness VF30 but covered with extremely fine roughness under a mostly glossy dark olive and chocolate brown patina. No marks or verdigris. Double struck. The first strike was centered but the planchet failed to eject properly and it was struck again but about 15% off center. The reverse was struck by the die during the second strike, but it was positioned off center to K-3 leaving a strong NITED and wreath on the left side of the reverse. The obverse was pressed into a new blank planchet rather than the obverse die during the second strike (thereby creating an off center obverse brockage on the new planchet), and the result was a strongly depressed arc covering most of the area left of the curls. A dramatic error. LDS. Davy #08.3.8.
Estimated Value $300-UP.
Ex Ron Guth 11/26/77.
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