Lot 170
1798 S-171 R4 Style II Hair, Small 8. PCGS graded AU-55. CAC Approved. Attractive frosty medium steel brown with slightly darker steel brown toning on the highpoints and lighter brown and tan in protected areas. Has the look of a mint state cent, but there is a touch of light wear on the highpoints. The only marks are a few microscopic ones on the neck, a couple faint hairlines in the field over the bust tip, a thin nick at the left corner of the eye, and a spot of darker olive brown toning at the left end of the wreath ribbon. MDS, Breen state IV, with a cud break left of the L in LIBERTY. Graded VF35 and tied for CC#3 in the Noyes census, his photo #28384. Bland says VF35 and tied for CC#4. Our grade is EF40. The attribution and Reynolds provenance are noted on the PCGS Secure label. Pop 1; 1 finer in 58 at PCGS for the variety (PCGS # 36083) .
Estimated Value $7,000-UP.
Ex Howard R. Newcomb, J. C. Morgenthau & Co. #458, 2/7/1945:239-Judge Thomas L. Gaskill, New Netherlands Coin Co. 11/1956 (privately)-Dorothy Paschal 1977-Myles Z. Gerson 1/10/1981-R. S. Brown, Jr., Superior 1/27/1996:237 (Robbie Brown collection envelope and Superior lot ticket included).
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