Variety Attribution: Obverse-Date is 8 3/4 mm. rather low and 81 is much closer 18 or 17. Stars are large and sharp. This die easily recognized by heavy defect ridge from top of cap to milling above star 8.Mouth open and upper forecurl forms loop in front of headband. Center dot on neck.
Reverse- 50 C. is 1 1/2 mm. Arrow to A is 3/4 mm. Center dot between crossbars 4 and 5. A long vertical line, probably and engraver's tool mark, extends from a segment of milling up between C and period. Another similar line closes the opening of C. These may not show very well by this late die state, and the one inside C not at all.
O-106a: There is a straight die crack edge to edge at top of OF. Another from milling below 50 C. to edge near arrowheads. Still another top of D ST through UNITED across tip of left wing. There is only a single leaf in place of the normal upper pair of olive leaves. Similar to the 1814 single leaf but not the same. There is a bold horizontal mark from outer loweredge of the single leaf, that appears to be the lower edge of the upper edge.
Single Leaf
PCGS Graded VF35. This one looks like it came out of a dank dark cave someplace. This is the Comet Variety as well as the Red Book Single Leaf variety. May be a stepping stone to a better one at another time.
