1809 C-6 R1 VG10. Double Struck over Brockage. Mostly glossy chocolate and steel brown mixed with some darker shades of reddish chocolate at stars 2-7. The surfaces are smooth except for a few small spots of very shallow greenish verdigris on the reverse, mostly at AME. E-MDS, Manley state 2.0, with the reverse rotated 90 degrees CCW. It is difficult to determine exactly what happened to this piece, but a few things are fairly clear. The diameter is about a half millimeter larger than normal while the weight is normal at 84.0 grains. Also we can see that the reverse is badly blunted as are stars 8-13. And finally we can see incuse dentils on the reverse rim from the end of the wreath stem clockwise to over the D in UNITED. While I am calling this "double struck over brockage," that is only a guess. Something else must have happened to make this piece look so odd and squeeze it to a larger-than-normal diameter. Take a good look. Davy #09.6.13.
Estimated Value $300-UP.
Ex Richard Gross (the Baltimore Collection via Ron Guth) 3/20/1983.
Selections from the Davy Collection of US Half Cents Part 2
