Lot 257
1809 C-2 R3 G4. Obverse Brockage/Double Struck. Several points sharper, especially on the incuse side, but the protected areas are covered with a thin layer of hard, black crud. The effect of the black stuff on the normal obverse is clearly negative, but it is at least neutral and possibly positive on the incuse side where it highlights the brockage details. You decide. Glossy chocolate brown where not covered with the dark stuff. No notable marks. The brockage impression is strongly impressed, and it was done at least two times creating 14 stars before the portrait (count the inner points of those incuse stars). The doubling on the normal obverse is less obvious, clearest in the dentils from star 5 to above the head. A really neat multiple error; just too bad about the crud. While this die was used for the C-1 and C-2 marriages, there are traces of a die crack through stars 11-13 which would confirm this was struck during the C-2 marriage. Davy #09.6.21.
Estimated Value $500-UP.
Ex Jonathan Kern 11/18/92.
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