Lot 732
1846 N-15 R4 PCGS graded MS64 Brown. Beautiful lustrous bluish steel and olive with mellowed mint red covering about 20% of the planchet, mostly on the obverse. No spots or stains, only some extremely faint hairlines in the field before the portrait. The strike is perfect bringing out the minute details of the dies. Rare EDS, die state a, without any die cracks on the obverse. Called MS65 and tied for CC#1 in the Noyes census, his photo #31448. Our grade is MS65, tied with the following lot for CC#1 honors in the Grellman census.
Estimated Value $1,500-UP.
Ex Herman Halpern, Stack's 3/16/88:583.
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