1812 Capped Bust Half Dollar. O-110b. Rarity-6. Single Leaf Below Wing. VF-25 (PCGS).This mostly pearl gray example is enhanced by blushes of powder blue and golden-apricot. The strike is off center to 7 oclock on the obverse, 10 oclock on the reverse, although only the border denticulation is affected. Overall softly defined due to the advanced die state, which is characterized by extensive relapping of the dies that has partially effaced the letters in the word LIBERTY and, on the reverse, removed most of the second leaf in the cluster above the branch on the reverse. This is the rare and desirable late die state of the 1812 Overton-110 pairing, the present example within the upper half of the census of known examples as listed by Stephen J. Herrman (Spring 2019).From the E. Horatio Morgan Collection. Acquired May 31, 1985, source not recorded. Collector envelope with attribution and provenance notes included.
