Is the winning bidder one of you guys? http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=140458110685&ssPageName=STRK:MEDWX:IT I bid about triple the value for this one because it might be unique, but the photo and condition might prevent sufficient identification to prove it. I'm not really that upset, but I'd love to see this story to it's conclusion. My best guess was a 6-C pairing, but it also looked like NC-2 and the second NC-4 in the Holmes Sale. Strangely enough, the 2 NC-4s do not look alike to me due to the distance of the hair to the lettering.
They are lousy photos, slightly out of focus and the slab is scuffed up. I'm wondering about S-206 or 207 with the cud developing below the fraction. And in the case of 207 with the weakness at the top of BE.
Those are certainly possibilities. I was focusing on the apparent low E in ONE which only occurred on the Reverse C as far as I can tell. However, that is not mentioned as a diagnostic for Reverse C and the coins image may be magnifying some alternative effect which is not part of the die. My real surprise is that someone else was also willing to take a flyer that it was something special. It's sort of like my FIND of an Obverse 3 of 1795 paired with a Reverse B of 1796. The identification was rock solid. But the images turned out to be from two different coins and were uploaded improperly in error. The search continues...
That is what happened to me once - it was a middle date. I was so sure I had a new variety - it was a graded coin. Both obverse and reverse matched color and details. It turned that the seller used the wrong picture. As it was I did not have to over bid.
