Lot 177
1826 N-6 R2 PCGS graded MS66BN. PCGS graded MS-66 Brown. Highly lustrous light steel brown faded down from mint color with traces of faded red showing through on the obverse and 20% of the original red remaining on the reverse. Great eye appeal with virtually flawless satiny surfaces. A small spot of slightly darker bluish steel toning over the left top of the N in UNITED and a hint of darker toning along the left edge of that D are the best identifying marks on this cent, but they in no way can be called "defects." E-MDS with a fine die crack from the bust tip to star 1. Struck very slightly off center to K-7. Called MS65 choice and tied for CC#1 in the Noyes census, his photo #21346. Bland says MS63 and tied for CC#2. Our grade is MS65. PCGS Population 2; none finer.
Estimated Value $3,000-UP.
Ex Ernest Henderson (The Sheraton Collection), 1947 ANA Sale, 8/23/47:1623-Willard C. Blaisdell 9/76-Del Bland 9/76.
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