Lot 740
1846 N-20 R3 PCGS graded MS63 Brown. Glossy light chocolate and steel brown faded down from mint red, about 25% of the lustrous mint color remaining, mostly on the reverse. This would be a choice cent if not for an abrasion of fine vertical hairline scratches that covers the field behind the portrait plus a few more in the field close along the profile of the nose. Perhaps a "Genuine" assessment from the slab folks would have been more appropriate for this cent, but it still offers very nice eye appeal and the abrasions are easy to miss. EDS, die state a, with tiny die lines up from the dentils under star 13. Called MS60 and CC#4 in the Noyes census, his photo #31288. Our grade is MS60, CC#4 in the Grellman census.
Estimated Value $300-UP.
Ex Willard C. Blaisdell 9/76 (via Del Bland).
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