Incredible Gem 1809 Classic Head Half Cent: Stack's Bowers Direct
Liberty’s cap and around her head, fading into ideal frosty medium brown. The superb eye appeal matches the technical grade, with no marks of any significance present, just a dark spot of toning at C in AMERICA. A splash of toning above O of OF blends in. The strike is sharp enough to bring up the concentric lathe lines on Liberty’s portrait, though the stars at left lack their centers, and the lettering of STATES isn’t perfectly crisp. The crack across the portrait hub seen on Cohen-4 is also seen here, as it is on every half cent coined by both obverses. The tops of STAT are joined...
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