Lot 1050
1851 N-18 R1 PCGS graded MS66 Brown. Highly lustrous bluish steel and olive with faded mint color covering 10% of the planchet, mostly on the obverse. Satiny mint frost covers this cent and it offers superb eye appeal. The only marks, and they are trivial, are a tiny pinprick just right of star 4, a very light nick on the front edge of the neck, and a speck of carbon touching the hair between stars 6 & 7. M-LDS, die state c. The die line or crack from the hairbun to the lower point of star 10 is clear but the points down from the N's in ONE CENT are gone. Called MS65 and tied for CC#1 in the Noyes census, his photo #30943. Our grade is MS64, CC#2 in the Grellman census.
Estimated Value $750-UP.
Ex 1974 ANA Sale, Paramount 8/14/74:355-Myles Z. Gerson-Stanley Kesselman 7/80.
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