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Lot 3
1840 N-3 R1 Small Date PCGS graded MS64 Brown, CAC Approved. Frosty medium steel brown and chocolate. Satiny luster covers the fields and protected areas and this cent offers excellent eye appeal. No spots or stains. The only marks are a very light and barely visible scuff of microscopic ticks at the dentil tips over star 4 and a pair of dull nicks at the N in CENT. Very scarce EDS, die state b early. The die crack through the date and most of the stars is very light (an uncracked example is unknown and may not exist), and the die defects under the date are clear. In addition there are a few dull die lines down to the right from the dentils over the R in AMERICA and shorter fine die lines down to the left from the dentils over that ER. Those final lines are not mentioned in the Grellman attribution guide. An attractive example of a very rare die state. Our grade is MS60. Tied for CC#9 of the variety but finest of the early state in the Grellman census. The attribution and Twin Leaf Collection provenance are noted on the PCGS label. PCGS population 1; 3 finer, 1 in 64+, 2 in 66 for the variety at PCGS. Estimated Value $1,000-UP
Ex Joe Rose, Harmer Rooke Galleries 3/15/1990:372 (via Chris McCawley)-Wes Rasmussen, McCawley & Grellman Auctions/Superior 2/8/1998:3-R. S. Brown, Jr., McCawley & Grellman Auctions/Superior 6/2/2002:10-Jack Wadlington (the Twin Leaf Collection), Stack's Bowers 7/16/2015:2333 (includes the Rasmussen and Brown collection envelopes, 4 lot tickets, and Wadlington collection notes).
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