Lot 450
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1795 HALF-EAGLE RARE VARIETY
Half-Eagle, 1795, small eagle, four berries (Breen 1C, rarity 6), scratches at the center of both sides, almost uncirculated, strong luster, highly important as the first year and denomination of United States gold coinage, a rare variety, perhaps fewer than twenty specimens have been identified

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Half-Eagle, 1795, small eagle, four berries (Breen 1C, rarity 6), scratches at the center of both sides, almost uncirculated, strong luster, highly important as the first year and denomination of United States gold coinage, a rare variety, perhaps fewer than twenty specimens have been identified

Lot Essay

In his series of monographs on early United States gold varieties, published in the late 1950's and 1960's, as well as in his later studies, Walter Breen identified about a dozen die combinations of the 1795 Half-Eagle with small eagle reverse. The variety offered here, Breen 1C (obverse 1, reverse C), is among the rarest of those varieties.