1806 Half Eagle

HBCC#:

3098

Breen#:

6447

BD#:

3

Judd#:

n/a

Pollock#:

n/a

As discussed at HBCC-3097, three examples in this Bass Collection display are from the same obverse and reverse dies, and were not identified by Walter Breen. Following Walter Breen’s descriptions, obverse 1 has the first two stars almost touching and perfect letters in TY of LIBERTY. This obverse has a broken T. Obverse 2 is also described with perfect TY and has the first star distant from the curl. Obverse 3 is described as having a defective TY and first and eighth stars equally spaced from devices. Obverse 4 has the 1 free of the curl and obverse 5 has the knobbed 6 font.

Provenance:

From Stack's sale of the G DiBello Collection, May 1970, Lot 811.

Obverse:

Reverse:

Commentary:

"Obverse: Close date, 1806, with top of 1 imbedded in curl. Tip of 6 overlies drapery. 0 leans to left! Tall numerals. Large letters LIBERTY, T without bottom left serif. Reverse: Large letters, except for A's in AMERICA. Normal Ts."