1795 50C A over E MS(PCGS#39252)

The Midwest Summer Sale 2021

Auctioneer

Scotsman

Lot Number

954

Grade

VG10

Price

1,534

Lot Description

O-113 (intermediate). PCGS might as well have offered the proper Overton die-marriage attribution since it is the only "A over E" variant. That said, the cataloger has elected the prime die state, even though a portion of the die crack that is supposed to connect LIBERTY exists only between "ER" on the obverse. Still, it should be noted that the "sixteenth star" -- a die defect right of the date, has just about fully formed. Light cleaning happened so long ago that some patina has started to recover, and PCGS appears to have deducted a couple of points off of borderline-Fine details to create a proper assessment.