Lot 405
1801 S-215 R5. VF-20 Plus. Glossy chocolate and darker steel brown with some lighter chocolate toning in protected areas of the reverse. Smooth, corrosion-free surfaces that show only a few trivial contact marks. These include a tiny nick in the field off the tip of the nose and a very small rim nick left of the fraction. E-MDS, Breen state III, with a trio of arcing die cracks in the field below the hair ribbon. Called VF25 net VF20 and CC#7 in the Noyes census, his photo #26676. Bland says F15 and tied for CC#11. Removed from an NGC slab graded VF35 (NGC label included, and it shows the attribution and Reiver provenance). NGC Population 1; The finest graded at NGC for the variety. DWH #2877.
Estimated Value $7,500-UP.
Ex Denis Loring 2/6/70-Jules Reiver, Heritage 1/24/06:19488.
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