1785 VT 1/2P Vermonts, BN MS (PCGS#539)
The November 2012 Baltimore Auction
- 拍卖行
- Stack's Bowers
- 批号
- 6602
- 等级
- F15BN
- 价格
- 5,861
- 详细说明
- 1785 Vermont Copper. Landscape. RR-2, Bressett 1-A, W-2005. Rarity-3. VERMONTS--Struck Off Center--Fine-15/VF-25.
109.1 grains. Deep golden-tan with rouge-red oxidation throughout, especially noticeable on the reverse. Surfaces microporous and somewhat rough. Both sides dramatically off-center, say 10% to 12% or so, with the rim encountering or obscuring much of the peripheral letters and design elements. Obverse rim excludes the date and all of the legend from 5 to 11 o'clock, RES plain, as is PUBLICA, natural planchet fissure at RE otherwise no circulation marks seen, die crack from rim through the beaded circle to a spot in the field just left of P, the break extending into the beaded circle and then beyond the blank planchet area to the rim, reverse off-center with just ELLA and QUARTA on planchet, TA weak and nondescript, shallow depression at all-seeing eye, heavy rouge-red cakey detritus among the rays, no heavy marks from circulation noted. Not far off the legal weight for the issue of 111 grains, though the weight metrology for the variety runs anywhere from 92 to 138 grains.Note that off-center strike shows die break which continues past the denticles. The die must have been significantly larger diameter than that of the struck design.
PCGS# 539.
Provenance: From the Dan Freidus Collection. Paper envelope with attribution notes included.
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