Lot 362
1837 N-2 R2 PCGS graded AU55. PCGS graded AU-55. Plain Hair Cord with Medium Letters. Choice glossy medium brown and light chocolate. Excellent surfaces and great eye appeal for the grade. A few microscopic planchet flakes at the top of TES can be used to help identify this cent. Extremely rare terminal die state with a rather large cud break connecting star 4 to the rim. Only two examples are known with this cud break, and this is the finer one by a wide margin. Called AU50 and tied for CC#5 overall but CC#1 of the terminal state by 30 points in the Noyes census, his photo #20727. Our grade is EF40. An extremely important opportunity for the die state specialist. PCGS Population 1; 2 finer in 64BN.
Estimated Value $500-UP.
Ex J. P. Hale Jenkins, Henry Chapman 7/26/1922:1729-Henry C. Hines 10/28/49-Willard C. Blaisdell 9/76-Del Bland 9/76. (Comes with a small collection envelope from Hines inscribed in Newcomb's unique handwriting with the variety and die state.).
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