| Considerable lustre remains with grayish brown, pale blue, and iridescent toning. Sharpness is actually finer with very light hairlines and other minor surface marks hidden by the toning. The reverse has minor tooling marks within the vertical shield stripes. This is one of two common varieties for the year and is available in all grades through Mint State. Only one finer example was recorded in the Dime Census. This is the only use of the obverse die. The reverse was earlier used for 1824 JR-2 and later for 1825 JR-5 and 1827 JR-1. The obverse has two different cracks connecting the outer points of all stars except stars 1 and 2. The reverse has an extremely faint die crack from rim to left wing tip, just left of U. Purchased March 1984 at a Cleveland, Ohio coin show. |
