Lot 2968
1803. BD-1. Rarity 5+. Sharpness of VF-30. Cleaned, burnished and probably used as jewelry. The Philadelphia Mint struck an estimated 15,017 1803 capped bust eagles from a single obverse die and several different reverse dies. The reverses are known with Small Stars and Large Stars with BD-1 being the first of the Small Stars. One variety for the Large Stars has faint traces of a fourteenth star superimposed on a cloud.
Estimated Value $3,500 - 4,000.
Ex R.W. Miller Coll.;The Estate of Winthrop A. Haviland, Jr.
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