1854-O "Huge O" seated quarter
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I think these are really neat. This XF-45 in the upcoming Heritage auction is one of the four finest graded at PCGS.
From the Heritage description: FS-004. Briggs 1-A. A likely scenario for this distinctive and very scarce variety would be a die having been shipped to New Orleans without a mintmark and the O being engraved in the die by hand.
How cool is that?
I will have to check it out next week.
From the Heritage description: FS-004. Briggs 1-A. A likely scenario for this distinctive and very scarce variety would be a die having been shipped to New Orleans without a mintmark and the O being engraved in the die by hand.
How cool is that?
I will have to check it out next week.
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I'm not the hoarder, by the way, I have only 2 of them.
I've never seen one in as high a grade as this one in the Heritage auction, in person.
Almost all you see are no better than vg.
Ray
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Breen's theory that the mintmark was engraved in the die by hand doesn't explain why the R and D in the surrounding legend is partially obscured. The legend would be below the surface of the die, and hand-engraving an "O" next to it should not have affected the legend.
No question that the mintmark looks hand-made, I just can't make the connection to how the legend was damaged. If the mintmark was applied from a hand-made punch, perhaps the shoulder of the punch squashed down the surrounding area to where the field was lowered to the level of the tops of the incuse R and D.
Or am I off-base here?
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