Lot 30
1841 N-7 R2 MS60+. Lustrous bluish steel brown with 20% of the slightly faded mint color remaining, mostly on the reverse. There is a tiny, very light scratch that barely breaks the satiny mint frost in the field between star 1 and the neck and some slightly darker toning over star 10. Otherwise this cent would rate a grade several points higher. The only other marks are a couple small, very shallow planchet laminations at the stem tip and near the U in UNITED, as struck. M-LDS, die state c, with a die crack from the dentils below star 1 into the field extending halfway up to the throat where is fades out. The two die lumps under the date are faint, barely visible. Tied for CC#7 overall and second finest of those few examples known with a cracked obverse. DWH #3248.
Estimated Value $650-UP.
Ex Louis Ullian, McCawley & Grellman Auctions/Superior 6/2000:355-R. S. Brown, Jr., McCawley & Grellman Auctions/Superior 6/2/2002:75-Bowers & Merena 12/2/2004:229-Chris McCawley 8/18/06.
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| Realized $1,898 |
