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1794 S-42 R4- EF40.

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / US Coins Start Price:5,000.00 USD Estimated At:10,000.00 USD
1794 S-42 R4- EF40.
1794 S-42 R4-. EF-40. Plated in Elder-Gilbert and Chapman. Glossy chocolate and darker steel brown with frosty luster remaining in protected areas. There are microscopic planchet chips covering much of the lower part of the obverse and top of the reverse (as struck) due to dies that were not perfectly in parallel alignment. The notable marks are a small pinprick between the I & B in LIBERTY, a very tiny hairline scratch in the field below the nose tip, and two tiny planchet chips below the right edge of the E in STATES, as struck. Otherwise the planchet and surfaces are smooth and quite attractive, nearly choice for the grade. Called EF40 in both census lists, CC#4 in the Noyes arrangement and tied with one other example for CC#4 honors in the Bland list. Noyes photo #31888. LDS, Breen state II, with fine die clashmarks visible at the back of the head. Both sides are plated in the Elder-Gilbert book and in the Chapman reference. DWH #2704.
Estimated Value $10,000-UP.
Ex Ebenezer Gilbert-Thomas L. Elder 10/1910:20-Dr. George P. French, B. Max Mehl FPL 1929, lot 43-T. James Clarke 1944, B. Max Mehl 4/24/47-R. E. Naftzger, Jr.-Dr. William H. Sheldon-Dorothy Paschal 6/18/73-C. Douglas Smith 11/73-Del Bland 6/4/84-George E. Ewing, Jr., 6/94-Al Boka-Walter Husak-Tom Reynolds 6/99-Robert C. Clark, Bowers & Merena 8/9/2000:230-Jack Wadlington (via Bob Grellman & Chris McCawley) 6/30/05.

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