Lot 799
1847 N-29 R3- PCGS graded MS64 Red. Frosty bright original mint red just starting to fade to light steel brown on the highest points of the design, 95% of the blazing original color remaining. The only thing holding this cent back from an even higher grade is an imperfect strike that left behind minor weakness on some of the stars, the curl over the 47, and on the leaves under OF. A strong glass reveals some very tiny specks of darker toning scattered over the obverse, including one hidden in the ear hole and another at the dentil tips over the left side of star 7. LDS, die state d. A fine die crack passes through the top of AMERIC and another through the top of UNITED extends to the dentils right of the D. Called MS67 and CC#1 by 4 points over the next best example in the Noyes census, his photo #31061. Our grade is MS65, CC#1 in the Grellman census. Ted called this one MS70.
Estimated Value $2,000-UP.
Ex New Netherlands Coin Co. #59, 6/15/67:1334.
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| Realized $12,075 |
