Lot 34
1797 C-1 R2. EF-45 Plus. 1 above 1 variety. Choice frosty chocolate brown with traces of satiny mint luster showing in the protected areas. Nearly flawless in every respect. The only marks are some of the usual microscopic planchet flakes that didn't completely strike out in the field before the face and at the opposing area around ICA. M-LDS, Manley state 4.0, with the reverse rotated 25 degrees CCW. The obverse die is extensively cracked and die sinking between a couple of those cracks is responsible for the slightly soft strike in the field before the face and at ICA. A choice example, very close to AU50. Weight 91.7 grains.
Estimated Value $5,000 - 7,000.
Ex Karl Ways, Jr. (via Don Valenziano 11/91).
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