1844 H10C RPD FS-301 (FS-000.063) MS(PCGS#145429)

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拍卖行

Stack's Bowers

批号

664

等级

MS65

价格

11,773

详细说明

1844 Seated Liberty Half Dime. V-3c, FS-301 (FS-000.063). Repunched Date. MS-65 PL (NGC). This is the only 1844 half dime to have received a PL designation from PCGS and NGC, and it has some claim to being one of the rare proof strikings of this early Seated Liberty issue. There seems to be some confusion in the literature about the exact attribution for this variety, with some writers describing the attributes for V-3c under the V-3 classification.<br /> For example, the 1989 edition of the book <em>Walter Breen's Encyclopedia of United States and Colonial Proof Coins: 1722-1989 </em>attributes&nbsp; the ANS and Eliasberg specimens of the proof 1844 half dime as V-3 but describes diagnostics that match V-3c as plated in the books <em>The Complete Guide to Liberty Seated Half Dimes </em>(Al Blythe, 1992) and <em>Cherrypickers Guide to Rare Die Varieties of United States Coins </em>(Bill Fivaz and J.T. Stanton, Fourth Edition, Volume II). The Bowers and Merena catalog description for the Eliasberg specimen (May 1996, lot 960) uses the V-3 attribution but, like Breen, describes a coin that matches the V-3c diagnostics.<br /> The foregoing discussion is important for the present coin in that this cataloger (Jeff Ambio) believes that there are clearly proof strikings extant of&nbsp;the 1844 V-3c Repunched Date half dime variety.Indeed, the PCGS Proof-65 Cameo specimen that sold as lot 5642 in Heritage's August 2004 Signature Sale and that was cataloged as a V-3 "Triple Date" appears to be an example of the V-3c variety, as here. It is possible that V-3, V-3a, V-3b and V-3c represents different states of&nbsp; the same RPD obverse die and, indeed, the aforementioned Liberty Seated half dime book by Al Blythe groups all of these varieties under the same discussion, in which the author states that there are six proofs extant of this RPD variety.<br /> This piece is deeply mirrored in the fields, as we would expect to see in a proof 1844 half dime, and the devices exhibit a