Lot 520
1794 S-42 R4. VF-20. Glossy light chocolate brown with traces of a slightly darker shade of reddish chocolate in a few of the protected areas. The surfaces are smooth and choice except for a rim nick opposite the neck and a tiny spot of shallow verdigris on the upright of the I in LIBERTY. Struck from dies that were not in proper axial alignment (the die faces were not parallel) causing the lower part of the obverse and upper part of the reverse to be softly struck while everything else is sharply impressed. This causes the date and TES OF to be relatively weak for the grade, and Breen mentions that OF is "always weak" on the variety. EDS, Breen state I, before any die clashmarks. Called VF20 net F12 in the Noyes census, his photo #30714.
Estimated Value $1,000 - 1,500.
Ex Anderson Dupont, Stack's 9/24/54:60-Harold Bareford-Steve Ivy Auctions 9/81:17-Roger S. Cohen, Jr., Superior 2/2/92:692.
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