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Half Cents
T
RIPLE
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TRUCK
1804 C-13
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1804 C-13 R1 Plain 4 without Stems VG10
. Triple
Struck Off Center over an Off-Center Reverse Brockage.
Glossy medium chocolate brown with areas of darker olive
brown and steel on both sides. The surfaces are decent but
there are traces of extremely fine granularity on both sides.
Only a few trivial contact marks including a rim nick just left
of the date. This planchet was struck at least 3 times. One
strike is centered on the planchet, and under this strike is
an off-center reverse brockage with clear remnants of the
incuse fraction at the bust tip. In addition an impression of
a new blank planchet positioned off center arcs through the
O in OF into the wreath. The most interesting strike was a
tab impression about 90% off center to K-9 leaving LIB
clearly visible behind the portrait and the U from UNITED
showing over TE in the "normal" UNITED. A really neat half
cent that clearly displays several types of mint errors. And it
comes from a famous collection.
Estimated Value ................................................. $500-UP
Ex Bowers & Merena 9/14/1992:52-The Missouri Cabinet-The
Davy Collection, McCawley & Grellman Auctions/Goldbergs 9/
19/2010:188 (lot ticket included)
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134
Pair of Half Cents, 1804 & 1851
. Includes 1804 C-13 R1
Plain 4 with Stemless Wreath MDS F15+, and 1851 C-1 R1 MDS
EF45. Both are glossy brown and chocolate. Lot of 2 coins.
Estimated Value .......................................................$150-UP
C
ONDITION
C
ENSUS
1805 C-2 R
ARITY
135
1805 C-2 R5 Small 5 with Stems F12
. Sharpness VF20
but the hair details were carefully strengthened to
"improve" the grade. Lightly burnished and nicely retoned
glossy steel and medium chocolate brown. The surfaces are
smooth and free of any marks. Nicely struck EDS with only
a faint hint of swelling in the field before the portrait. The
reverse is rotated 15 degrees relative to the normal head-
to-foot die orientation. This half cent offers excellent eye
appeal in spite of the hair strengthening and retoning. The
finest known example of this rarity grades only VF and
most have significant problems. Another F12 brought
$41,400 in our sale of the Ray Rouse collection (9/14/
2008:69). This piece is clearly in the condition census and it
is the plate coin for the variety in the Manley book on US
Half Cents.
Estimated Value .............................................. $2,000-UP
Ex Charles M. Williams, Numismatic Gallery 11/14/1950:718-
Robert Schonwalter, Stack's 1/21/2003:1149
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