Lot 284
1798 S-157 R2 Style I Hair with Small 8. PCGS graded AU-58. Noyes Plate Coin. Slightly sharper with a half dozen small spots of dark olive toning sprinkled about both sides. The most noticeable of the spots is on the E in ONE, and a spot in the field left of the lower curls surrounds a very tiny pitmark. In addition, there is a thin nick on the shoulder and a shallow low spot close under the E in STATES, as struck. Otherwise this cent is a very attractive glossy light brown with slightly darker steel brown toning on the highpoints. EDS, Breen state I. Both sides show clear die clashmarks but are not rusted. This is the Noyes plate coin for the "perfect, non-rusted" state of the obverse die. Del Bland says AU50 and tied for CC#4 overall. Noyes says AU55 net EF45 and CC#7 overall but finest of the early die state, his photo #23242. Our grade is EF45. Comes with a long, distinguished provenance. PCGS Population 2; None finer at PCGS for the variety. Perhaps the same coin graded twice. DWH #2541.
Estimated Value $5,000-UP.
Ex Colonel E. H. R. Green-B. G. Johnson (St. Louis Stamp & Coin Co.) 8/27/42-James G. Macallister 10/6/42-Judge Thomas L. Gaskill-New Netherlands Coin Co., privately 11/56-Dorothy Paschal 1972-R. S. Brown, Jr., Superior 9/30/86:222-C. Douglas Smith-Dr. Robert A. Schuman-Chris McCawley 1/5/05. (Note: The Breen book says this example has a reeded edge, but it is a double-flanged edge.).
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