catalog Auction info Buyers Premium of 20.00% added to each and every lot September Pre-Long Beach(#60) 09/19/2010 1:00 PM PDT CLOSED! Lot 24 of 3814: 1795 C-4 R3 Plain Edge AU50. Click image to enlarge PreviousNext Lot closed - Winning bid:$8,500 (17 bids) Estimate: $3,000 Remove from watchlist Add to watchlist Tell a friendAsk a question September Pre-Long Beach(#60) 09/19/2010 1:00 PM PDT CLOSED! Description Description: 1795 C-4 R3 Plain Edge AU50. Off Center. Cohen Plate Coin. Five points sharper with a shallow depression (probably pre-striking) in the unstruck portion of the planchet outside the dentils opposite the neck. Otherwise free of contact marks, only the usual tiny planchet flakes or chips showing on the portrait and center of the reverse where some of the normal planchet imperfections didnt completely smooth out during the strike. Lustrous chocolate and steel brown with delicate splashes of reddish chocolate and olive on both sides. The fields are slightly reflective and mint luster covers the reverse. Struck 10% off center to K-9. An outstanding example of an early mint error. Plated at page 21 in the second edition of the Cohen book on the "Little Half Sisters." Weight 88.1 grains. Davy #95.4.4. Estimated Value $3,000-UP. Ex Kagin's MANA Sale 11/74:3-NERCG FPL #4, 1975-Pine Trees Dr. Conway Bolt Sale, 11/75-Pine Tree 1/78:66-Benjamin Levin at the 1979 ANA Convention-Roger S. Cohen, Jr., Superior 2/2/92:48. Categories:
