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1808/7 C-2 Overdate 8 over 7 G6

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / US Coins Start Price:240.00 USD Estimated At:500.00 USD and UP
1808/7 C-2 Overdate 8 over 7 G6
1808/7 C-2 Overdate 8 over 7 G6. Sharpness VF20 but the planchet is covered with uniform moderate roughness, mostly in the form of granularity. The surface quality suggests that this piece may have spent some time lost in soil after very limited service in commerce. No verdigris, but there is a deep, obvious gouge across the hair right of the ribbon and a less obvious scrape in the field under the L in LIBERTY. Otherwise this piece is free of marks or other flaws. Slightly glossy very dark steel and olive. Extremely rare LDS, Manley state 6.0, with strong cud breaks at TY and BE. The section over RT is sunken into a retained cud. Second finest of the three examples known to us in this die state, and our census is 7-6-5 making this one CC#2, slightly ahead of the G5 Lee:258 example. This is the Manley plate coin for the die state (page 191). Davy #08.2.13.
Estimated Value $500-UP.

Provenance: Ex Roger S. Cohen, Jr., Superior 2/2/1992:251.