W-10650 variety. 

One of just 29 different specimens we have definitively traced in our proprietary census data, and as such a surprisingly rare and underrated issue in the Washington series. 

And this is a fantastic example, the very finest known to us, and by far and away the sharpest we’ve ever seen.  Indeed, the shoulder epaulet and edges of the design elements and lettering are especially crisp, with even the raised oval spot in the field to the left of Washington’s portrait (caused by die rust and seen on all genuine examples) all but unworn.

About as well centered as you’ll find, too,  for an issue struck on planchets just a little too small for the design. 

The color is a lustrous mahogany  brown with shades of deep blue, and quite attractive as such.  We could wax poetic about this coin for a few more paragraphs, but suffice it to say that it is, to the best of our knowledge, unimprovable at any price. 

Ex Stack’s November 2006 sale of the Norweb Collection, lot #2018.

$24,000

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