Lot Number 77
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1827 Sq. Base 2 - O.124a R.5 PCGS Genuine -- Cleaning -- XF Details
I’ll venture that 9 out of 10 dealers and collectors, when first viewing the coin, miss the cleaning. Hairlines are well hidden under antique grey toning. Luster flickers around the devices. The upshot is an attractive example of a seriously rare die variety that generally lacks eye appeal. The strike is as good as it gets. The obverse die spent its youth, adolescence, middle age and most of its seniority married to a different reverse die (O.135). Its second marriage was short lived, yielding the established rarity offered here. It is my guess that the O.124 lies fourth in the parade of 1827 rarities, behind the O.149, O.148 and O.137 and ahead of the O.127, O.144, O.145 and O.122. Est. $1,500 and up.
