Lot 2084
1793 S-6 R3 Wreath Cent with Vine & Bars Edge. PCGS graded AU-50. Glossy medium brown with slightly darker steel brown toning on the highpoints. The obverse is smooth and nearly flawless, the only marks being a dull, light rim nick just right of the date and a tiny planchet chip in the field off the chin. The reverse is void of contact marks but shows several shallow, narrow planchet voids or striations. The largest of these planchet flaws is just above the loop of the wreath ribbon and along the left end of that ribbon to the U in UNITED. There are traces of dark planchet impurities in some of these voids attesting to the relatively crude technology used to prepare our copper planchets during this first year of our mint's operation. Nonetheless, this cent remains quite attractive and the flaws are certainly mint made. Nicely struck E-MDS, Breen die state II. The "Sprung Die" feature shows clearly as a nearly horizontal wave in the field behind the head, but the wave is not yet strong. EAC grade net VF35. The attribution is noted on the PCGS label.
Estimated Value $10,000 - 12,000.
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| Realized $16,675 |
