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1801 1C 1/000 VF20 NGC. S-220. B-12, Low R.3. Die Stat 1801[1C] 1/000. S-220, B-12, Low R.3. VF20 NG

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1801 1C 1/000 VF20 NGC. S-220. B-12, Low R.3. Die Stat 1801[1C] 1/000. S-220, B-12, Low R.3. VF20 NG
<B>1801<1C> 1/000. S-220, B-12, Low R.3. VF20 NGC. Fine 12 EAC.</B></I> Die State III. Another popular variety with the blundered 1/000 fraction. Sheldon speculated that the many 1801 errors were the result of low morale at the Mint, which Congress was scrutinizing for possible outsourcing to private industry. Numismatic researcher R.W. Julian has a differing opinion, that a new supply of Boulton blanks that arrived in July 1801 after a long lack impelled a "sudden press of coinage" that stressed quantity over quality and required Mint Engraver Robert Scot to work in unusual haste, perhaps even recruiting day laborers into service to complete the dies. Breen opined that the perennial shortage of die steel and haste to furnish sufficient dies to complete large coinage orders combined to explain the "issue of cents with bizarre breaks and blunders." Perhaps the explanation is some combination of these not mutually exclusive theories, but the oddities of 1801 remain popular and highly collectible to this day. This example is from early in Die State III, as it shows a die crack over the second 1, but there is as yet no trace of a break from the rim through the lower hair curls or the drapery. The rim is crumbling right of LIBERTY and bulging at 18. The reverse is cracked from AT to OF A in a nearly straight line. This appealing specimen is struck on a glossy, dark-brown planchet that shows a normal number of abrasions for the grade. The reverse die is rotated about 40 degrees counterclockwise.<BR><I> Ex: Deibert (3/11/1972).</B></I> Envelope Included.