1797 C-1 R2 1 Above 1 Variety AG3. Double Struck with Small Offset. Rather glossy dark olive and steel with lighter steel brown and chocolate toning covering the devices. There are traces of very fine roughness and some light hairline scratches mixed into the natural toning on both sides. None of these defects is distracting except for a small patch of shallow pitting in the field before the eye. Double struck with a small offset between the impressions, perhaps a millimeter. The doubling is clearest on the portrait and at LIBERTY, which now reads LIBBE with swelling obliterating RTY. Similar but less-obvious doubling shows on the reverse, strongest around the fraction. LDS, Manley state 5.0. The die cracks and swelling are well advanced. Weight 90.4 grains. Davy #97.1.22.
Estimated Value $150-UP.
Ex Don Valenziano 3/1/1995.
Selections from the Davy Collection of US Half Cents Part 2
