Lot 295
1798 S-161 R2 Style I Hair with Small 8. NGC graded MS-63 Brown. Noyes Plate Coin. Lustrous chocolate brown with satiny mint frost covering the fields on both sides. Just the barest hint of rub on the highest points of the design from mint state. The only marks, and they are barely visible, are a very thin nick in the field before the neck, a couple light contact marks at the top of the wreath, a small spot of slightly darker toning on the 7 in the date, and another spot of dark toning on the leaf above the right wreath stem. Nicely struck E-MDS, Breen state IV late. This is the Noyes plate coin for the variety. Called AU55 and tied for CC#3 in the Bland condition census. Noyes says AU50 net EF45 and tied for CC#7 overall but finest of the die state, his photo #20613. Our grade is AU55. NGC Population 1 with none finer for the variety at NGC. DWH #3512.
Estimated Value $15,000-UP.
Ex Carl Wurtzbach-Virgil M. Brand-Emanuel Taylor 10/1960-R. E. Naftzger, Jr., McCawley & Grellman Auctions/Goldberg’s 9/14/08:175.
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