Lot 324
1830 N-10 R4+ EF40+. EF-40+. Choice glossy chocolate and steel brown with satiny luster covering the protected areas. Excellent eye appeal, very close to EF45. The only mark, and it is trivial, is a small, shallow low spot over the T in CENT, as struck. EDS with smooth, slightly reflective fields, especially on the reverse. The always-present die crack through the top of ATES is very light. Considered by John Wright to be the finest non-proof example of the variety. Called EF45 and second finest of the non-proofs in the Bland census. Noyes says EF40 net VF35 and CC#9 overall in his census, photo #25601. DWH #3151.
Estimated Value $5,000-UP.
Ex Jim Fairfield (Fort Wayne, Indiana) 5/77-John D. Wright 1/18/06-Bob Grellman & Chris McCawley 4/3/06.
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