1783 Copper Washington Draped, No Button, BN MS(PCGS#676)

1783 Copper Washington Draped, No Button, BN MS (PCGS#676)

The September 2011 Philadelphia Americana Sale

详细说明: 1783 Washington Draped Bust Copper. Vlack 15-K, W-10340 for similar type. No Button. AU-58 BN (NGC). Deep brown verging on chocolate. Pleasing surfaces with its modest stay in circulation betrayed by just a few tiny marks. Inadvertently unlisted in the Whitman Encyclopedia though V.16-K is listed (W-10340); the V.15-K obverse, as seen here, differs from the V.16-K variety in that the point of the main toga fold is directly over the extreme left edge of the flag of the 1 in the date, while on the V.16-K variety it ends over the center of that numeral. Also, the period after the date is distant instead of "directly in back of and very close to its apex" as noted for V.16-K in the Whitman reference. We also note a heavy die break on the present specimen that runs from the dentils between the 7 and 8, arcing across the bottoms of the 8 and 3 then back to the dentils. The reverse exhibits the same die chip at the D in UNITED as called for on V.16-K, a re-worked die of Vlack's Reverse J.