Lot 348
1835 C-2 R1 MS63. Clipped Planchet. Lustrous mint red fading to steel brown, nearly half the red remaining. Both sides are peppered with very tiny spots of the dark steel toning, the largest of these between the feet of the N & T in CENT. A curved planchet clip affects the dentils under the 18 and above TE in STATES. A relatively common type of mint error, but not in this grade. M-LDS, Manley state 3.0. The arc crack on the reverse is light. Davy #35.2.7.
Estimated Value $500-UP.
Ex Abe Kosoff estate, Bowers & Merena 11/4/85:4153.
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