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1808 C-3 R1 AG3

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / US Coins Start Price:499.00 USD Estimated At:1,000.00 USD and UP
1808 C-3 R1 AG3
1808 C-3 R1 AG3. Off Center Obverse Brockage. Sharpness VG8 or so but there are several dull dents on the obverse and the surfaces are covered with fine roughness under the rather glossy dark olive brown and chocolate patina. The highpoints are a lighter shade of chocolate brown. Struck 20% off center to K-7. The obverse was struck by the die while the reverse was pressed into the obverse of an already struck coin that remained in the press, thereby creating an off center obverse brockage on the reverse of this piece. The normal and incuse designs are off center by the same degree but are rotated slightly so the images do not line up perfectly. Only the very top of the date digits made it onto the planchet, the top of the second 8 clearest since it is positioned so high relative to the other 3 digits. A very rare type of error for this date. Davy #08.3.15.
Estimated Value $1,000-UP.

Provenance: Ex Richard Gross (the Baltimore Collection via Ron Guth) 3/20/1983.