1804 Plain 4, Stemless, B-10, C-13 - Double Struck Over a Brockage Reverse -- XF45 PCGS. Our EAC Grade VF35....

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1804 B-10, C-13 Half Cent, XF45
Struck Over an Obverse Brockage

1804 Plain 4, Stemless, B-10, C-13 - Double Struck Over a Brockage Reverse -- XF45 PCGS. Our EAC Grade VF35. Equivalents. Proskey 2: 1-B; Ross 5-F; Gilbert-2; Empire-33; Cohen-13; Breen-10; Eckberg 5-G.
Variety. Plain 4, Stemless.
Obverse 5. The Plain 4 obverse die was used for B-10 and B-12.

Reverse F. The Stemless reverse was used for 1804 B-10 and 11, and also for 1805 B-1 and 1806 B-3.
Edge. Plain.
Surfaces. Lovely olive-brown surfaces show minimal handling marks and substantial detail from the brockage strike including much of the legend, denomination, and wreath. The reverse is also doubled, showing rotation between the strikes.
Die State. The nature of this double struck coin precludes an exact die state determination.
Production. The first strike was a brockage of the reverse, followed by a normal strike, resulting in the brockage impression on the obverse and doubling on the reverse.
Commentary. There are more errors of the 1804 Plain 4, Stemless variety than of any other half cent variety from 1793 to 1857. The famous Davy Collection, featuring more half cent errors than any other collection known to us, had 38 errors from the B-10, C-13 die pair, ranging from laminations and cracked planchets to dramatic double and triple struck pieces.
McGuigan Commentary. Choice glossy dark brown. Mint error-struck over a full reverse brockage with the complete reverse design showing on the obverse.
Provenance. Ex: Jon Lusk (8/1976).
Personality. A half cent collector since the early 1970s, Jon Douglas Lusk resides with his wife, Sally, in Ypsilanti, Michigan. He was born in 1942 and served three years in the Army prior to advanced schooling at the University of Michigan where he earned a degree in physics and mathematics. He followed that with a master's degree in mathematics from Eastern Michigan University. A coin collector since his paper-boy days in Detroit, Lusk specializes in half cents, Bust quarters, and Conder tokens. He is the author of British and Irish Tradesmen and their Tokens of 1787-1804, and the publisher of William Noyes' six-volume large cent reference, Eric P. Newman's Fugio Cents, and two recent Bust quarter books.
From The James R. McGuigan Half Cent Collection.

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