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1809 C-6 R1 VF30

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / US Coins Start Price:190.00 USD Estimated At:400.00 USD and UP
1809 C-6 R1 VF30
1809 C-6 R1 VF30. Impressed Off Center Planchet Arc on Obverse. Slightly sharper with a couple fine hairline scratches from the nose to the rim over star 8. Glossy chocolate brown with lighter chocolate brown toning in protected areas. An attractive piece in spite of the faint hairline scratches. M-LDS, Manley state 4.0. There is a strongly impressed arc from a blank planchet reaching from the rim under the 1 in the date clockwise to the rim above the head. It appears this arc was present before the dies struck the planchet since the surface of the fields leading up to the arc are perfectly level (no metal squeezed out creating a minor bulge on either side of the arc, which would suggest the arc came second). There is no trace of doubling on either side. Nonetheless, there is a reasonably good chance the centered strike came first, the coin failed to eject at all, and a new blank planchet was inserted leaving the impressed arc while creating an off center obverse brockage on the new planchet. This would require no shift between the two die strikes on the reverse, which is a possibility. Either way, this one is not normal and the error is obvious to the unaided eye. Davy #09.6.14.
Estimated Value $400-UP.

Provenance: Ex Joe Flynn 1/19/1983.