Lot 468
1802 S-239 R3. EF-40. Sharpness AU50 with a rather tight grouping of short pinscratches in the field just left of the hair ribbon. The only other marks are a thin nick on the bottom of 02 in the date, a light pinscratch under TE in STATES, and a dull rim nick right of the F in OF. Glossy chocolate and steel brown with hints of reddish chocolate toning in the lower left quadrant of the obverse and hints of frosty very faded underlying mint color in protected areas of the reverse. There are small specks of silvery toning around ONE CENT and microscopic specks of darker olive toning sprinkled in the reverse fields. LDS, Breen state V. A new die crack arcs from the tip of the nose and joins the earlier crack at the dentils before the mouth, and the slice of field between these two cracks is clearly raised. A neat die state. Called EF45 and tied for CC#5 in the Bland census. Noyes says AU55 net EF40 and tied for CC#5 as well, his photo #26686. DWH #3030.
Estimated Value $2,000-UP.
Ex Henry C. Hines-Willard C. Blaisdell-George Ramont-R. S. Brown, Jr., Superior 1/27/96:334-Chris McCawley 3/06.
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