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1817 N-7 R7 (for the die state) F15

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1817 N-7 R7 (for the die state) F15
Slightly sharper, particularly on the reverse, but covered with extremely faint roughness. Slightly glossy dark steel and olive brown. No verdigris and essentially void of marks. A tiny rim nick at star 5 and a small nick-like planchet chip left of the lowest curl are the only marks. Extremely rare early die state before the "Mouse" break on top of the head below star 8. Only 8 examples without the Mouse break are known to us. This piece rivals the finest of that small group, and several of them have significant defects and/or surface impairments. The reverse is slightly misaligned to K-1.5, as always for this die state, causing weakness at OF. The lower half of the reverse, which is well struck, has solid VF20 sharpness. A very important piece for the collector of die states.