Very light surface marks. Pale golden brown and iridescent toning with light gray surfaces and nearly complete lustre. A few stars are weakly defined with all other details very sharp. This is a common variety available in all grades including Mint State. This example is the finest listed in the Dime Census.

Eight obverse and eight reverse dies were combined to form 10 varieties for the year. The recorded mintage reached seven figures with 1,186,512 dimes produced. Only 1827, 1835, and 1836 had higher mintages, and none of these years reached two million coins.

This is the first use of each die. The obverse was later used for JR-2 and the reverse for JR-3.

The obverse has a light die crack through the outer points of stars 1, 2, and 3 with a short branch to the border over star 2. A light bulge also affects these first three stars. Another crack joins the inside points of stars 11, 12, and 13 with a very faint crack at base of the date. The reverse has extremely faint clash marks.

Purchased August 1989 from Gerald Schertz.