Lot 1055
1851 N-20 R3 PCGS graded MS65 Brown. Both 1's Repunched. Glossy light to medium chocolate brown with traces of darker olive toning on the highest points of the design. Attractive flowline luster covers the fields and protected areas. A small struck-through line in the field midway between the lower lip and star 3 is the only mark. LDS, die state c, with crumbling that connects the tops of the C & E in CENT (Newcomb's old #28). The repunching on the 1's is gone and the dies are flowlined from excessive weak. Called MS63 and tied for CC#3 overall but tied for CC#1 of the late state in the Noyes census, his photo #30502. Our grade is AU58+, very close to mint state.
Estimated Value $400-UP.
Ex Willard C. Blaisdell 9/76 (via Del Bland).
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