1804 Half Eagle

HBCC#:

3086

Breen#:

6443

BD#:

1

Judd#:

n/a

Pollock#:

n/a

This die marriage appears to meet Walter Breen’s requirements for both varieties 2-C and 2-D. In his monograph, Breen described his variety 2-C as always with a heavy rim break on T of UNITED. Later, in his New Varieties monograph, he noted that variety 2-D exists both perfect and with a rim break on T in UNITED. This example matches Breen’s description of 2-D, and has a die crack through top of T in UNITED forming a retained cud, i.e. a rim break that has not yet fallen from the die.

Provenance:

From Stack's sale of the Gaston DiBello Collection, October 1970, Lot 806.

Obverse:

Reverse:

Commentary:

"Obverse: Normal 8. Small blunt topped 4. Top left serif of 1 missing. Crack: edge - 0 - bust, not to L. Reverse: Spine from right shield corner thru star 12 to beak. Retained CUD (crack) above (I)T."