 1812 S.290. Small Date, No Dash under ONE. Mint State-60 from the technical standpoint of wear. Struck visibly off-center on the obverse with a wide right obverse rim, surfaces are very dark brown and distinctly granular when scrutinized under a glass. This youthful Liberty was called the Turban Head by earlier generations of numismatists, though a turban is a full head covering. As the late Walter Breen pointed out, the headband here worn by Liberty is more suggestive of boy athletes of ancient Greece, itself a mixed design metaphor.
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