| Dark gray with blue, amber, and iridescent toning. The fields are slightly reflective. Among the finest examples of this variety currently known. While 16 examples of this variety were listed in the JRCS Quarter Census, just one of these is finer than the example offered here. This variety was listed as Low Rarity-5 by Breen in his update of the Browning text and retains the Rarity-5 rating today. Both obverse and reverse dies are unique to this variety. The obverse is cracked through the first six stars, extremely faint between stars 4 and 6. The reverse has a very faint crack from the border to right upright of U. The coinage of 1819 was accomplished through the use of four die combinations with a total of 144,000 examples produced. Four obverse and three reverse dies were combined for the quarter dollar coinage of 1819. Purchased December 1997 from Larry Blackwelder. |
