1848 (D) Liberty Head Half Eagle - D/D - WRPM-001 Repunched Mint Mark

Description

1848-D WRPM-001 is a repunched mint mark on the 1848-D Liberty Head half eagle, cataloged by the Wexler team. Wexler describes it as a D/D South. On the obverse, the date's 1 has a scratch heading NW from its crossbar to the star, the first star has a scratch reaching it NW from the rim, and the 3rd and 4th stars have two small gouges beside them at the rim. On the reverse, STATES's E is linked by a crack from its upper serif to OF's O. Between the 6th and 7th rows of the shield's vertical bars, about a third of the way up, is a die chip, and UNITED's U has a crack leaving its top left serif and passing along the bases of FIVE's letters. Frank M. Zapushek submitted the variety and took the photo. CONECA lists it as RPM #1, and its Cherrypickers number is FS-G5-1848D-501. Wexler includes it in its "Best Of" varieties.

Die Markers

• Obverse: Die scratch runs NW from crossbar of 1 to star; scratch from rim to first star; two small die gouges at rim near 3rd-4th stars. Reverse: Die crack from upper serif of E in STATES to O in OF; die chip between 6th-7th rows of vertical bars ~1/3 from bottom; die crack from top left serif of U in UNITED through bottoms of letters in FIVE.

Cross References

• CONECA: RPM #1, Cherrypickers: FS-G5-1848D-501

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