An essay by Dr. Charles Link on Gerrie’s collection observed, “Finding and assembling just the ‘Red Book’ set would be challenge enough for most of us, but Paul began to assemble a die marriage set especially focused on pre-1824 marriages.” One of the most dramatic die varieties in the series is the Overton 111b 1807 Capped Bust, Bearded Goddess, where a prominent die crack from the chin to the bust provides easy fodder for a solid nickname. 

Heritage writes, “This example shows the chin to bust crack extending intermittently through the drapery, and up along Liberty’s face to the eye and hair to the I in LIBERTY, with a branch crack to the E and into the cap,” while for good measure, “Another die crack joins all the stars on the left.” Featuring a green CAC sticker and graded AU-53 by PCGS, it has medium gray surfaces with light gold and pale blue toning. Its provenance traces back more than a century, thanks to a note in the catalog when it was offered at Bowers and Merena’s 1988 offering of the Norweb Collection, which recorded “Alexander before 1913.” It sold for $60,000.

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