Lot 115
1819 Coronet Head Cent. PCGS graded MS-62 Brown. Glossy medium brown and chocolate with steel brown toning on the highpoints and frosty luster covering the fields and protected areas. A splash of reddish chocolate toning right of the E in ONE is the only defect that catches the eye, but there are a few light contact marks as well. These are a dull nick on the tip of the nose into the field and some tiny rim nicks at ED in UNITED. MDS. The obverse fields are now satiny from fine die flowlines and microscopic die rust. The die line that connected the bases of the T & E in STATES in the earlier state is now incomplete and does not reach the T. In the upper half of the condition census for this scarce variety. Called AU55 and CC#2 among the confirmed examples in the Bland census. Noyes says MS60 net EF45 and CC#5 in his census, photo #21026. Our grade is AU50. Pop 1; 1 in 64. Only 2 graded at PCGS for the variety. DWH #2582 (PCGS # 36640) .
Estimated Value $2,000-UP.
Ex F. C. C. Boyd, New Netherlands Coin Co. 12/7/57:1387-Willard C. Blaisdell 9/76 (via Del Bland)-R. E. Naftzger, Jr., 1990 EAC Sale, lot 91-Wes Rasmussen, Heritage 1/13/05:3426.
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