Lot 689
1845 N-6 R2 PCGS graded MS64 Red & Brown. The obverse is frosty mint red mellowing to steel brown on the devices, about two-thirds of that side showing mint color. The reverse is lustrous light steel brown faded from mint red, but that side is closer to brown than red. Both sides are covered with satiny mint frost and the eye appeal is excellent. This would be a gem cent if not for a small spot of very fine carbon resting on the nose just before the eye. Very sharply struck except for the right half of the O in ONE, which is clearly not fully raised in contrast to the needle-sharp details on the rest of this cent. EDS, die state b. The dies show sharp clashmarks on both sides but they are uncracked (die state a, uncracked and unclashed, is unknown and probably does not exist). All the fine die finishing lines are crisp suggesting these dies were new. Called MS63 and tied for CC#2 in the Noyes census, his photo #31223. Our grade is MS64, CC#3 overall in the Grellman census but finest of the early die state.
Estimated Value $400-UP.
Ex Howard R. Newcomb, J. C. Morgenthau & Co., 5/16/45:742-Floyd T. Starr, Stack's 6/13/84:460.
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