Lot 759
1847 N-4 R3 PCGS graded AU58. Repunched 18. Glossy dark steel and olive with frosty luster showing through in protected areas. A thin diagonal nick under the N in CENT is the only mark on otherwise choice surfaces. Sharply struck LDS, die state d late. The section of die outlined by the crack at MER has shifted outward slightly and the area at the top of the adjacent A is strongly outlined by die cracks and has started to become a retained cud break (only a single example is known in the terminal state with a raised retained cud break over this A). The repunching on the 18 remains clear. Called AU50 and tied for CC#17 in the Noyes census, his photo #31045. Our grade is AU50, tied for CC#9 overall but finest of the late state in the Grellman census.
Estimated Value $300-UP.
Ex Dr. James O. Sloss, Abe Kosoff 10/21/1959:245.
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