Logan-McCloskey Plate Coin, Page 165. Light gray with peripheral steel and pale gold toning. Very minor blemishes are evident on both obverse and reverse surfaces. Just three finer examples were recorded among 15 coins listed in the Census. A scarce variety generally found in lower grades.

Previously certified MS-60 by PCGS.

The obverse has a prominent crack across Liberty's face to the drapery. Other cracks join stars 3 and 4 and star 4 to the border. A faint crack joins stars 9 and 10. The reverse has die chips in the right angle of N and both angles of M, along with heavy clash marks.

In Walter Breen's supplement, published in 1958, he discussed just two varieties unknown to Valentine. For his B-14 variety, he noted two examples known, that in the Eliasberg Collection and another from New Netherlands' Numisma, lot 679. Breen continued regarding this second example "where a typographical error made this 'Obv. V-1'." It is now known that this was not a typographical error, and that a third new variety discovered four years earlier shared the same reverse die.

This is the fifth use of obverse 4 and the fourth use of reverse J.

Purchased March 1991 at a Cleveland, Ohio coin show.