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A very attractive specimen of this rare variety. Nice antique silver gray, a pleasing
medium shade, with pale gold and blue highlights on the lively, semi-lustrous surfaces.
The highest points of the design, where a slight trace of rub is present, light silver
dominates. The reverse shows a bit more lustre than the obverse. The overall visual appeal
is very nice, despite magnification revealing some tiny flaws. A vertical nick is present
inside stars 1 and 2, a thin old cut is noted below the wing on the left side of the
reverse near IT of UNITED, tiny pinprick nicks hidden at central obverse, horizontal dig
right of final 9 of date, other light scattered marks commensurate with grade. As noted
above, this variety is described in the Bowers Encyclopedia as "the rarest variety of
the date" and the four "notable specimens" listed are all AU or EF. A
specimen of this die marriage in the Cardinal Collection graded AU-58 (PCGS) brought
$23,000 in our event last June. This example boasts a lot of eye appeal and value, and it
would fit nicely in a well-formed early dollar collection.NGC Census (BB-151): 2; 2 finer
(AU-58 finest).From the Miller Collection.
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