Lot 292
1798 S-159 R3+ Style I Hair with Small 8. VF-20 Plus. Sharpness near VF30 with some light contact marks scattered about both sides, none distracting but too many for the sharpness grade. The notable ones are a thin nearly horizontal nick in the hair at the forehead and a small pinprick on the upper right curve of the O in ONE. Glossy medium brown with some small spots of darker olive brown toning scattered about the reverse, the largest of these at the dentils over IC in AMERICA. MDS, Breen state IV, with several fine die cracks on the reverse and the reverse rotated 35 degrees CCW. The vertical die cracks in the field behind the portrait are clear. Noyes graded VF25 net VF20 and tied for CC#8, his photo #23200. DWH #2545.
Estimated Value $2,000-UP.
Ex Stack’s in the 1950’s-C. Douglas Smith-Dr. Robert A. Schuman-Chris McCawley 1/5/05.
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