Very light silver gray with minor hairlines and other abrasions. Hints of light tan may be seen on certain of the devices. An attractive example retaining considerable lustre. Very weakly struck on the reverse with the head merely outlined and the left wing showing little detail. This variety is considered the rarest die marriage of the year. An important opportunity for the specialist who has been searching a long time. In their catalogue of the Pugh sale, Superior graded this coin F-15!

Just two finer examples are listed in the JRCS Census, both EF-45. Parsley provided a Census of 55, 45 (4) and Herrman recorded only one finer coin, an AU-50 that he labeled finest known. This information suggests to us that this example is the sixth finest known, and certainly within the top 10 for the variety.

Although the revese is extensively cracked, this is an earlier die state without evidence of the additional die cracks described for O-113a.

From Superior's sale of the Pugh Collection, May 1992, Lot 917. Earlier from the Long Beach coin show in 1987.