Lot 24
1795 C-6a R2 No Pole on Thin Planchet AU55. Struck over a cut-down Talbot Allum & Lee Cent. Mint state sharpness but lightly cleaned and retoned lustrous dark chocolate and olive blending to iridescent dark steel in areas. The surfaces are flawless except for a single microscopic planchet chip near the dentils off the chin, as struck, and a very small rim bruise above the O in OF. Struck slightly off center to K-4 but all the designs remain on the planchet. Evidence of the TAL Cent undertype shows above STATES-O, but there is not enough of the undertype remaining to determine the date of the TAL Cent (1794 or 1795). EDS, Manley state 1.0, before any hint of a bulge in the field right of the Y in LIBERTY. The fields are hard and the designs are sharply impressed. A premium example in spite of the retoning. Tied for CC#7 honors in the condition census. Weight 83.0 grains.
Estimated Value $10,000-UP.
Ex Otto Heaton, James Kelly MBS 6/1/1953:16-unknown-Stack's 1/17/2006:1756 (as MS60)-Michael Spurlock (via Chris McCawley FPL 11/16/2007.
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