| Satiny light gray lustre is visible with pale gold toning. Very lightly cleaned yet with exceptional eye appeal. This is a rare variety that retains its Rarity-5 status from the time of the Dime Book publication. The Lovejoy Collection example, plated in the Dime Book, was the finest seen to that point and graded AU-55. Since that time, an AU-58 example has been recorded in the Dime Census, along with another graded AU-50. This is the second obverse die use after JR-6 and before JR-9. The reverse is also in its second use after JR-5. Upper and lower loops of both 3's are joined. The reverse has a crack through O in OF and another through first A of AMERICA, both from rim to scroll. Purchased at the 1981 ANA Convention in New Orleans, Louisiana. |
