The obverse has weak central details. Lightly cleaned with deep steel and lighter iridescent toning. Just three EF examples are recorded as finest in the Dime Census. Two duplicates of this die marriage in the present offering are also EF quality. This is a scarce variety and extremely difficult to locate in higher grades, according to the Dime Book.
This is the first obverse die use before JR-4, JR-6, and JR-7. The reverse is in its second and final use after JR-2.
The obverse has a tiny die crack or chip joining the upper and lower knobs of the digit 3. Very late reverse state with extremely heavy die cracks through the arrowheads. All other reverse die cracks described in the Dime Book are fully developed.
The edge cud involves four reeds and just touches a fifth.
Purchased November 1993 at the MSNS Convention in Dearborn, Michigan.