Goldberg Coins and Collectibles

Sale 59

Pre-Long Beach Coin and Currency Auction

Cents Of 1824

Lot	Photo	Description	Realized
Lot 184		1824/2 N-1 R1 VF35. Overdate 4 over 2. VF-35. Ten points sharper but nicely recolored glossy steel brown and chocolate. The surfaces are satiny and attractive offering excellent eye appeal. There is a patch of very faint microscopic roughness under EN in CENT and two small nicks over star 13. M-LDS. The fields are covered with fine radial die flowlines but the overdate remains clear. Faint die cracks join star 1 to the adjacent 1 and star 6 to star 7, and a stronger die crack passes through the bottom of the legend outside the wreath with the exception of OF. A weaker die crack is visible from the bottom of the second S in STATES down to the wreath and up to the right foot of the first A in AMERICA. The variety is unknown without these cracks, although the one through the wreath below OF is sometimes faint. The rim crumbles at stars 2 & 3-5 found in the latest state are not present. Called EF45 net VF35 in the Noyes census, his photo #37119. DWH #0573. Estimated Value $600-UP. Ex Christian M. Petersen, Kagin's 1/30/86:5441. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $1,668
Lot 185		1824 N-2 R2 VF35. VF-35. Slightly sharper with a nick under the ear and a dull rim nick over star 7. Glossy chocolate and darker olive brown with traces of frosty lighter steel brown in protected areas of the reverse. This cent is attractive, but it could use a bath to remove some dirt from protected areas. MDS. The fields are covered with fine radial flowlines but the dentils are complete on the obverse and most of the reverse, and the obverse is uncracked. Minor crumbling shows in the left notch of the N in ONE. The reverse is rotated 30 degrees CCW. DWH #0575. Estimated Value $300-UP. Ex Christian M. Petersen, Kagin's 1/30/86:5442. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $426
Lot 186		1824 N-2 R2. PCGS graded AU-58. Very attractive glossy chocolate brown with mint frost remaining in protected areas, especially on the reverse. A trio of tiny, dull rim nicks at stars 6-7 are the only marks. M-LDS with fine die rust lumps at the ear and neck below, and crumbling in the left notch of N in CENT. At least half the dentils on both sides are still visible, although they are weak, and the reverse is not rotated. Noyes photo #29554. Our grade is AU50. Pop 1; 1 finer in MS64. Only 2 graded at PCGS for the variety. DWH #3180 (PCGS # 36769) . Estimated Value $1,500-UP. Ex 2003 EAC Sale, McCawley & Grellman Auctions 4/26/03:596-Evan Kopald (via Bob Grellman & Chris McCawley) 5/06. View details and enlarged photos Check results on similar lots	Realized $1,955
Lot 187		1824 N-3 R2. PCGS graded MS-62 Brown. Lustrous bluish steel brown and chocolate, the obverse delicately mottled with some darker olive brown tones. The fields and protected areas are covered with satiny mint frost and the eye appeal is excellent. The notable marks are a light diagonal nick in the center of the neck, a faint diagonal hairline under star 8, a faint spot of microscopic roughness in the field under the chin, and a few tiny pinpricks at the left base of the N in CENT. EDS with a sharp inner circle around most of the obverse. Nicely struck except for some minor weakness on the tip of the coronet. The reverse is slightly misaligned to K-5.5 while the obverse is nearly centered on the planchet. Noyes photo #58222. Our grade is AU55. Pop 1. The only Brown example graded at PCGS. DWH #2511 (PCGS # 36772) . Estimated Value $3,000-UP. Ex McCawley & Grellman Auctions/Superior 4/04:1009-Tom Reynolds, McCawley & Grellman Auctions/Superior 9/5/04:776. View details and enlarged photos Check results on similar lots	Realized $3,680
Lot 188		1824 N-4 R2 EF40. EF-40. Glossy chocolate and steel brown, possibly retoned but the eye appeal is excellent. No spots or roughness, the only defect being a tiny nick under the ribbon loop below the wreath. LDS. The obverse die cracks that connect star 5 to star 6 and the 24 to stars 13-11 are clear, but the inner circle off the dentil tips on the left side of the obverse is gone. DWH #0580. Estimated Value $500-UP. Ex Bob Matthews, Superior 5/28/89:633. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $1,725
Lot 189		1824/2 N-5 R4+ F15. Overdate 4 over 2. Fine-15. Attractive glossy chocolate and steel brown. Smooth surfaces with a few light contact marks, including some fine horizontal hairline scratches above and below ONE CENT and a thin diagonal nick between the C & E in CENT. LDS with dentil fusing from star 2 to star 5, although there is a small break in the fusing just above star 3. The overdate feature is clear. DWH #3143. Estimated Value $1,000-UP. Ex Johnnie Dillow (Bristol, Tennessee) 2/81-John D. Wright 1/18/06-Bob Grellman & Chris McCawley 4/3/06. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $1,150