 1796 John Reich 1 (R-3). Lump at Star 1. Brilliant Uncirculated. A pleasing coin which offers characteristics indictative of a Choice designation. Sharply struck and toned with very attractive light peripheral gold on the obverse, the reverse with darker russet-gold mixed with blue and violet accents. Lustrous in the fields and generally frosty on the devices.
The strike is fairly sharp on Liberty's curls and the reverse retains the eagle's breast feathers, but the uppermost are not quite fully struck up. For identification there is one rim bruise before STATES, and this area is also opposite to the obverse die cud that extends from the rim to the lower two points of the first star. Trivial rim ticks are located on the right reverse. Traces of adjustment marks are found on the upper left obverse rim. A later die state as usually seen, with heavy clashing from the eagle's wing before Liberty's face and portions of the wreath in the obverse fields, and on the reverse a thin die crack slips down through the 'E' of STATES to the tip of the leaf located below the right wing, and another die crack extends to this prior crack through the 'E' of AMERICA.
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