Illustrated in the John Reich Dime Book, page 172. Light gray devices are framed by grayish brown fields. Pale gold through the stars and legend. A very pleasing example of this scarce variety. When the authors of the Dime Book prepared their manuscript, they noted that no high-grade examples were known to them, with VF-25 the finest they had seen. Today, some higher grade coins have been found, although apparently none reaching Mint State.

Several lower grade examples of this variety are listed in the Dime Census with a single EF-45. This coin is tied with one other for second finest. A total of 18 coins were recorded by JRCS members in the Dime Census with an average grade of just 16. Among Capped Bust dimes, only 1829 JR-10, the Curled Base 2, has a lower average grade.

The recorded mintage for this year was 510,000 coins with production from four obverse and six reverse dies combined to produce eight die varieties. Among varieties of this date are two overdates varieties from an 1830/29 obverse die. Two scarce varieties are known for this date, including the JR-1 variety of this lot.

This is the first use of the obverse prior to JR-2 and JR-3. The reverse was earlier used for 1829 JR-11.

Perfect obverse. The reverse has a short crack from border to left top of T in UNITED and another from point of lowest arrowhead to border.

Purchased February 1981 at a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania coin show.