Variety Attribution: Obverse-Stars are sharp and well formed. Date is 8 3/4 mm. Second 1 slants more than other figures. This is the punctuated date without the dot.
O-105a: There is a die crack from edge across star 9 that branches, with one branch curving up across cap and stars 7 and 6 to edge near star 5; the other down toward ribbon ends. In later states another crack develops from 18 up across lower curl to stars 12 and 11. after first using the preceding obverse with the new reverse C, it apparently was discarded because of the extensive die crack and this old obverse 3 brought back into service, whereupon it also quickly began to break up.
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-105a: 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.
PCGS Graded AU53. Neat original piece with many die cracks and all the detail. One of the prizes that I have scored over the years. Really tough to find in higher grades.
