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<p>[QUOTE="NSP, post: 3678263, member: 74849"]I’ve gotten a few more large capped bust quarters since I posted this, but today my rarest die marriage (up to this point) arrived in the mail today! Here is PCGS’s TrueView image of the quarter (it’s graded G04):</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]987665[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>This is the small 0 variety (which I personally believe is tougher than the large and medium 0 varieties), and it is also the rarest die marriage for the date: 1820 B-5. This marriage is rated as R5, which corresponds to about 50 coins. As I stated almost two years ago, 1820 B-4 and B-5 (the two small 0 marriages) were made in 1821, as evidenced by die crack progression on the reverse. The reverse die was first used to strike 1820 B-2 and 1821 B-4. The reverse die developed a crack through the E in United while being used to strike 1821 B-4. By the time it was used for 1820 B-5, a new crack had developed right of the first A in America (which is visible on this coin!).</p><p><br /></p><p>Somehow I got this for a price that wasn’t too inflated in a recent Heritage auction. I actually got it for about 33% less than it sold for about a year ago![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="NSP, post: 3678263, member: 74849"]I’ve gotten a few more large capped bust quarters since I posted this, but today my rarest die marriage (up to this point) arrived in the mail today! Here is PCGS’s TrueView image of the quarter (it’s graded G04): [ATTACH=full]987665[/ATTACH] This is the small 0 variety (which I personally believe is tougher than the large and medium 0 varieties), and it is also the rarest die marriage for the date: 1820 B-5. This marriage is rated as R5, which corresponds to about 50 coins. As I stated almost two years ago, 1820 B-4 and B-5 (the two small 0 marriages) were made in 1821, as evidenced by die crack progression on the reverse. The reverse die was first used to strike 1820 B-2 and 1821 B-4. The reverse die developed a crack through the E in United while being used to strike 1821 B-4. By the time it was used for 1820 B-5, a new crack had developed right of the first A in America (which is visible on this coin!). Somehow I got this for a price that wasn’t too inflated in a recent Heritage auction. I actually got it for about 33% less than it sold for about a year ago![/QUOTE]
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