Lot 690
1851 N-20 R3. MS-63. Both 1's Repunched. Choice, highly lustrous chocolate brown with overtones of light bluish steel and mellowed mint red covering 5% of the planchet, mostly on the reverse. The only mark is a small spot of very fine carbon on the bottom of the O in ONE. LDS, die state c. The repunching on the 1's is gone and the tops of the C & E in CENT are joined by crumbling. This is Newcomb's old #28. Tied for CC#5 in the Grellman census.
Estimated Value $500-UP.
Ex Jack H. Robinson, Superior 1/29/89:1590-R. S. Brown, Jr., 2002 EAC Sale, McCawley & Grellman Auctions 4/20/02:619-Phyllis Thompson.
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