Lot 137
1822 N-12 R4 PCGS graded MS64BN. PCGS graded MS-64 Brown. Frosty light to medium brown with darker steel brown toning on the highpoints of the obverse. A thin swipe of darker steel toning follows close before the profile of the nose and a small splash of reddish brown toning is located at the dentils close under star 4. Sharply struck with full radial lines in all the stars. The fine die crack that is always present down from the dentils through star 7 and the portrait reaches to just below the jawline where it fades out. Called MS63 and CC#1 in the Bland census. Noyes says MS60 and tied for CC#1, his photo #21850. Our grade is MS60+. PCGS Population 1; none finer.
Estimated Value $2,000-UP.
Ex Dr. George P. French (who acquired it prior to 1914 and sold it privately to)-Dr. Henry W. Beckwith, S. H. Chapman 4/27/1923:61-Carl Wurtzbach-William Festus Morgan, J. C. Morgenthau 6/16/32:201-T. James Clarke 1944-B. Max Mehl-B. Max Mehl 6/45:1750-Anderson Dupont, Stack's 9/24/54:612-Emanuel Taylor 10/60.
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| Realized $3,220 |
