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1793 S-16 R6 Liberty Cap Fair-2

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1793 S-16 R6 Liberty Cap Fair-2
Sharper but lightly corroded with patches of stronger reddish corrosion on the obverse. The portrait, LIBERTY, and some of the devices on the reverse are significantly sharper. If you get the light just right you can see portions of the date, particularly the 79, but to say the date is readable would be a mischaracterization. Dull dark olive brown and steel. An old, dull scratch in the field before the face and another under the chin are the notable contact marks. Struck with the reverse rotated 45 degrees CCW relative to the normal head-to-foot die orientation. Not a pretty cent but quite rare.

Ex Jim Young who traded it to Tom Schuler for a nicer 1793 S-14 in 2019