Lot 74
1794 S-45 R5+. PCGS graded MS-65 Red & Brown. Noyes Plate Coin. Choice lustrous light olive and steel brown with slightly faded mint red showing in the protected areas, about 15% of each side covered with the mint color. No roughness or planchet flaws, only a few trivial contact marks, including a pair of small nicks on the upper half of the cap and a very thin nick near the dentils above the lower end of the pole. Great eye appeal, close to gem. Sharply struck M-LDS, Breen state II early. The die crack from the dentils through IC reaches the leaf below the C but goes no farther. Called MS65 choice and finest known by a wide margin in the Noyes census, his photo #21754. Bland says MS64 and CC#1 by a wide margin as well. Our grade is MS65. This is the plate coin for the variety in the Noyes book. A truly wonderful example and the only one of the variety saved as part of the Oswald group of mint state early cents. PCGS Population 2; Probably the same coin graded twice at PCGS for the variety. DWH #3503.
Estimated Value $100,000-UP.
Ex Major Sir Rowland Denys Winn, M.C., 4th Baron St. Oswald-Christie, Manson & Woods, Ltd. (London) 10/1964:147-H. Van Colle-Dorothy Paschal-Dr. William H. Sheldon 4/19/72-R. E. Naftzger, Jr., 2/23/92-Eric Streiner 4/4/92-Dr. Allen Bennett-Walter Husak, Heritage 2/15/08:2047-Chris McCawley 5/9/08.
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| Realized $184,000 |
