1807 1/2C C-1, BN MS(PCGS#35203)

The March 2012 Baltimore Auction

Commissaire-priseur

Stack's Bowers

Numéro du lot

1237

Grade

AU55

Prix

1 150

Description du lot

1807 Draped Bust Half Cent. C-1, the only known dies. Rarity-1. Manley Die State 3.0. AU-55 (PCGS). CAC. Pleasing steel-brown with residual luster in the fields. The strike is firm on Liberty's bust, hair and the wreath, with the usual minor softness on the peripheral legends as these dies were lapped and used well beyond their normal service life. Free of all but minute signs of contact, and identifiable by a couple of shallow nicks, one facing on the rim before Liberty's neck. Scarce and desirable with so much eye appeal and technically high grade.