1802/'1' $2.50 BD-2 MS(PCGS#45507)

1802/'1' $2.50 BD-2 MS (PCGS#45507)

Dr. Juan XII Suros

Lot Description: 1802, 2 over 1. Breen-6118. PCGS graded Mint State 62. Choice and lustrous. Curving adjustment lines in Liberty's hair and cap. Mintage: 3,035. Struck from a single obverse overdated die, the coinage for 1802 was minuscule by today's standards; and even in its day it was insufficient to supply the needs of a growing com¬ merce. PCGS #9928301. PCGS census: 2, with 2 higher. Leaf joined to I of AMERICA. From the Breen introduction to 1796-1807 Quarter Eagles: "Beginning in 1802, obverses show stars 8 + 5, copying the half eagles of 1798-1806. The single 1802 obverse is generally called an overdate, 1802/1, a perception possibly influenced by the 1802/1 half-eagle dies. Any trace of 1 within 2 on the quarter eagles requires a microscope. This obverse comes with four reverse dies, two of them also used on dismes; the rarest has leaf wholly free of I (BD-2), the two least rare respectively with first star (farthest 1., below first cloud) obviously double-punched, or with A away from wing. Most survivors are VF to EF.