1804 Crosslet 4, Stems, B-3, C-2, R.6, Fine 12 PCGS. Our EAC Grade Good 6....

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1804 B-3, C-2 Half Cent, Fine 12
The Rare Late Die State

1804 Crosslet 4, Stems, B-3, C-2, R.6, Fine 12 PCGS. Our EAC Grade Good 6. Please refer to lot 3060 for equivalents, rarity, die, and edge descriptions.
Surfaces. Deep olive and steel-brown surfaces show signs of handling but overall this is an excellent example of the variety.
Die State. Manley Die State 3.0. This is the important and rare late die state with a rim break over ERTY.
Appearances. The obverse is plated in the second edition of Roger Cohen's American Half Cents, the "Little Half Sisters." This is Ronald Manley's Die State 3.0 plate coin in The Half Cent Die State Book 1793-1857. Plated in the Superior catalog of the Cohen Collection.
PCGS Population (6/2022). In all grades, PCGS has attributed just two submissions of 1804 B-3, C-2 half cents, and both are offered in the McGuigan Collection. The other piece grades VF30.
Commentary. A review of 15 different examples that appeared in recent auctions is evenly split between the die states, five of each for Manley states 1.0, 2.0, and 3.0. This late die state piece from the McGuigan Collection is apparently the third finest with the rim break, trailing only the Jules Reiver and Jack Robinson coins, and ranks fifth or sixth finest overall.
McGuigan Commentary. Glossy steel-brown surfaces. Weakly struck at left obverse from 6:00 to 10:00 and correspondingly on the reverse from 8:00 to 12:00. Late die state (M3.0) with the obverse rim cud over "ERTY" of LIBERTY. Among the half dozen or so finest examples of this very rare variety and second or third finest known of this late die state.
Provenance. Ex: Sam Ungar (8/1982); Roger S. Cohen, Jr. (Superior, 2/1992), lot 141; Russ Butcher; Chris Victor-McCawley (11/2008).
Personality. Virginia coin dealer Samuel Ungar was a Norfolk native, born on May 6, 1943, who died on October 20, 2002. He was educated at the University of Virginia and pursued graduate studies at Old Dominion University. Ungar was a middle school teacher for several years before operating his Lafayette Coin Shop for more than 25 years. A past president of the Tidewater Coin Club, Ungar was a member of the American Numismatic Association and the Professional Numismatist's Guild.
Personality. Texas realter M. Russell "Russ" Butcher is a Dallas area half cent collector. He was born at Chillicothe, Missouri in October 1945. He graduated with a mechanical engineering degree from the University of Colorado. Since his earliest half cent purchase about 25 years ago, Butcher has assembled a complete, high-grade collection of circulation-strike and original proof varieties, and has completed his collection of Massachusetts half cent varieties with the acquisition of the 1787 Ryder 4-D from our Long Island Collection auction.
From The James R. McGuigan Half Cent Collection.

Coin Index Numbers: (NGC ID# 222F, Variety PCGS# 35143, Base PCGS# 1069, Greysheet# 80878)

Weight: 5.44 grams

Metal: 100% Copper

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