Lot 1
1816 N-1 R4 PCGS graded MS64RB. PCGS graded MS-64 Red & Brown. Frosty steel brown with 25% of the mint color remaining on the obverse, 10% on the reverse. The surfaces are satiny and lustrous offering excellent eye appeal. A small spot of chocolate brown toning on the neck near the curl and a faint contact mark inside the C in CENT are the only marks, and they are not at all significant. MDS with a series of small rim cud breaks at stars 8-11 and a fine die crack through the top of NITED. Called MS63 Choice and finest known in the Noyes and Bland census lists, Noyes photo #21816. The finer of only 2 known in mint state, and the inferior example sold for $25,300 in 2001 (J. R. Frankenfield, McCawley & Grellman/Superior 2/17/01:618). This is the plate coin for the variety in the Newcomb book. Our grade is MS63. (The attribution and Naftzger provenance are noted on the PCGS label, as it is on all the certified cents in this sale.) PCGS Population 1; none finer.
Estimated Value $10,000-UP.
Ex Howard R. Newcomb, J. C. Morgenthau 5/16/1945:488 ($34)-Floyd T. Starr, Stack's 6/13/84:68.
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