1803 10C JR-3 MS (PCGS#38764)
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- 拍卖行
- Stack's Bowers
- 批号
- 4059
- 等级
- AU55
- 价格
- 115,274
- 详细说明
- Condition Rarity 1803 JR-3 Dime in AU-55 PCGS
1803 Draped Bust Dime. JR-3. Rarity-4. AU-55 (PCGS).
This dime is high in the Condition Census for the variety and the date. The obverse and reverse are toned a uniform gunmetal-blue with rose-gold iridescence. Boldly struck in general, Liberty has strong curl separation on her uppermost hair behind her temple, and her drapery lines are sharp. The obverse die is shattered with multiple cracks through the date, one arcing up through her shoulder to her lower ribbon end and out the fourth star, another arcs through the 0 to the lower curl and out below the first star, with a branching crack to the first star. Bold die clashing is seen in the right obverse field from the eagle and star field. The reverse is also badly cracked with two seen crossing letters NI and T of UNITED to the eagle's wing, another splits the first S of STATES, another the second T to the cloud below and another through the M of AMERICA. The die clashing is heavy from Liberty's bust in the clouds and legend. Small drift marks identify this specimen, one below the E of STATES, the other at OF. This is one of the top six of this variety known and a date that is rarely found in high grade.
The obverse die had been used to coin the 1803 JR-1, 1803 JR-5 and 1803 JR-2 varieties but failed on this JR-3 marriage, as well displayed here, with fatal cracks through the date into the bust and left field. The reverse was only used on the 1803 JR-3 die marriage, and failed with the cracks seen on the present coin. Somewhere in the middle of the emission of 1803 dimes the 1803 JR-5 appeared, using a new obverse with the 3 leaning distinctly to the right at the top, and that die was paired with the rare JR-1 reverse (crack splitting the N of UNITED).
PCGS# 4473.
Provenance: From our (Stack's) James A. Stack, Sr., Collection, January 1990, lot 11; our (Stack's) Lemus Collection, October 2005, lot 513; Jim Matthews Collection.
PCGS Population: 3; 5 finer (Mint State-64 finest) for the year.
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