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1794 S-60 R3+ VF35.

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / US Coins Start Price:4,000.00 USD Estimated At:8,000.00 USD
1794 S-60 R3+ VF35.
1794 S-60 R3+. VF-35. Blundered Edge Lettering. Slightly sharper with a group of tiny, light nicks in the wreath right of E in ONE. The other marks are trivial and include a tiny nick on the cheek, a barely visible rim bruise at ES, and a small rim nick at AM. Choice glossy medium brown with chocolate tones in protected areas. MDS, Breen state III, with a fine die crack through the tops of LIBE and the top of the cap to the dentils left of the cap. The edge lettering is blundered with the F in FOR touching the D in HUNDRED (a result of not resetting the Castaing machine completely to the null starting position before impressing the edge lettering onto this planchet in preparation for striking with the obverse and reverse dies). Graded VF35 in both census lists. Bland says tied for CC#6; Noyes has this piece at CC#7, his photo #25107. DWH #0076.
Estimated Value $8,000-UP.
Ex Europe-Lester Merkin 3/68:167-Norman Stack collection-Herman Halpern, Stack's 3/16/88:83-Robert E. Matthews, Superior 5/28/89:193.

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