Lot 552
1839 N-9 R2 EF40. Silly Head. EF-40. Slightly sharper with a shallow planchet lamination under star 7 and a patch of extremely fine roughness at the E in ONE. Glossy chocolate brown, the obverse with tiny woodgrained streaks of darker olive toning, and darker reddish olive and steel toning at the roughened area near the E in ONE. MDS with a clear rim cud break at star 6 plus a weaker one at stars 7-8 and another under the 18 in the date. The bisecting obverse die crack from the dentils over star 5 to the dentils right of the date is clear and has branch cracks at both ends. Another fine crack reaches from the nostril down through the chin into the field below. DWH #1725.
Estimated Value $200-UP.
Ex Floyd T. Starr, Stack's 12/4/84:1781.
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