1798 Half Eagle

HBCC#:

3056

Breen#:

6429

BD#:

5

Judd#:

n/a

Pollock#:

n/a

A very rare die marriage from one of just two reverse dies with only four berries in the branch. The other is displayed at HBCC-3053. When Walter Breen prepared his 1966 monograph, he was only aware of two or three examples including the Edgar Adams plate coin illustrated in the November, 1934, issue of The Coin Collector’s Journal and another in the Mayflower Coin Auctions sale of the Gaylord Collection. Harry Bass acquired three different examples of this die variety!

Provenance:

Purchased from Joe Flynn, Sr. Coin Co., August 27, 1973.

Obverse:

Reverse:

Commentary:

"Obverse: Wide date, large 8 - which touches drapery. L away from cap. Die scratch from cap front thru base of L, almost to upright of L. Rust line in field below ER. Reverse: Very small stars. Two four star alignments in straight lines. Shallowly hubbed or lapped."