The Pre Long Beach Auction - January 2012

1798 S-161 R2 Small 8, Style I Hair VF20. Sharpness VF35 but cleaned and retoned glossy light chocolate brown with delicate overtones of bluish steel.

1798 S-163 R4 Small 8, Style I Hair VG10. Sharpness VF35 or slightly better but covered with uniform fine granularity. No verdigris. The best identify

1798 S-163 R4 Small 8, Style I Hair VG10. Ten points sharper but a bit dull from uniform extremely fine roughness. No notable contact marks or verdigr

1798 S-164 R4 Small 8, Style I Hair F15. Ten points sharper but there is some extremely faint roughness in the fields and protected areas on both side

1798 S-165 R4 Large 8, Style II Hair F12. Sharpness near VF20 with uniform extremely fine roughness covering the fields and protected areas while the

1798 S-166 R1 Large 8, Style II Hair VF30. Ten points sharper but lightly cleaned and retoned glossy light greenish olive and chocolate mixed with som

1798 S-166 R1 Large 8, Style II Hair VF30. Ten points sharper but there is a dull scratch in the field before the neck, a planchet chip out of the che

1798 S-166 R1 Large 8, Style II Hair VF25. Misaligned Dies. Sharpness EF40 but there is some extremely faint roughness under the rather glossy dark st

1798 S-166 R1 Large 8, Style II Hair VG10. Sharpness VF25 but lightly corroded and there is a small patch of raised verdigris in the field before the

1798 S-167 R1 Large 8, Style II Hair VG10. Sharpness near VF20 but covered with uniform fine granularity under the slightly glossy dark steel toning.