Lot 526
1838 Coronet Head Cent. PCGS graded MS-62 Brown. Attractive glossy steel brown and chocolate with frosty olive brown toning in protected areas. The fields are satiny and lustrous, free of any notable defects other than a very tiny nick just right of the upper lip and several tiny planchet flakes in the reverse dentils. E-MDS. A die crack from the dentils over the left edge of the E in AMERICA forks before reaching the right upright of the M, and then passes through the M just reaching the left foot of the adjacent A but not extending into the field left of that A. The area between the forks of the crack right of the M is sunken. Removed from an NGC slab graded MS62BN (NGC label included, and it shows the attribution and Reiver provenance). Our grade is AU55. Pop 1; 4 finer for the variety at PCGS in Brown at PCGS. There is a single MS65RB graded at PCGS. DWH #2956 (PCGS # 37207) .
Estimated Value $400-UP.
Ex Garry Fitzgerald 11/13/68-Jules Reiver, Heritage 1/24/06:20110.
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