Lot 436
1802 S-226 R3. AU-50. Frosty steel brown with satiny mint luster covering the fields and protected areas. Hints of very faded mint color are peeking through in a couple of the protected areas. No spots or stains, only microscopic contact marks. The best identifying marks are a tiny diagonal planchet chip in the field over the bust tip and another in the field below the right edge of the L in LIBERTY, both as struck. MDS, Breen state III. The cud break under the date is clear and the die crack at AMER extends to the left from the A into the field towards the adjacent F. The obverse is slightly misaligned to K-4 while the reverse is more perfectly centered on the planchet. Noyes photo #60003. Removed from a PCGS slab graded AU55 (PCGS label included, and it shows the attribution and Husak provenance). DWH #3489.
Estimated Value $5,000-UP.
Ex Doug Bird 2006-Walter Husak, Heritage 2/15/08:2229.
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