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1804 C-9 R2 VG8

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / US Coins Start Price:240.00 USD Estimated At:500.00 USD and UP
1804 C-9 R2 VG8
1804 C-9 R2 VG8. Double Struck Off Center. Sharpness VF25 but covered with very fine corrosion and the fields have been crudely abraded to remove some of the roughness. Slightly glossy chocolate brown mottled with splashes of darker reddish chocolate. Traces of raised greenish verdigris can be found on both sides. EDS, Manley state 1.0, before the die crack at RTY became clear. Double struck. The first strike was slightly off center to K-11 and the second was centered on the planchet but rotated about 10 degrees CCW relative to the first. The date now reads "181804" and parts of LIBE show on the rim above the centered LIBE. Ms Liberty has two clear, complete faces, and this feature is the most striking aspect of the error. Similar doubling shows on the reverse, including UNITED ST on the rim above the centered version of those letters. An unattractive half cent thanks to the crude smoothing, but the error is remarkable. Davy #04.9.28.
Estimated Value $500-UP.

Provenance: Ex Centennial Auctions date unknown, lot 304-Frank McGrath, McCawley & Grellman Auctions/Goldberg's 2/11/2007:186-Michael Spurlock (via Bob Grellman and Chris McCawley).