Lot 320
1811 S-287 R2. PCGS graded MS-63+ Brown CAC Approved Gold Sticker. Beautiful lustrous steel brown and olive with traces of reddish golden tan faded down from mint red on both sides. Mint frost covers the planchet extending to even the highest points of the devices. The only marks are a spot of extremely fine carbon at the dentils under the second 1 in the date, a pair of faint hairlines between star 5 and the dentils, and another over star 8. MDS, Breen state III, with a faint bulge at F-A and fine radial die flowlines in the fields near the dentils. Graded MS62 Choice and CC#3 in the Noyes census, his photo #20514. Bland says MS61 and tied for CC#5. Our grade is MS62+, close to MS63. The attribution and Naftzger-Reynolds provenance are noted on the PCGS Secure label. Pop 1; 1 finer in MS64 at PCGS for the variety (PCGS # 36496) .
Estimated Value $30,000-UP.
Discovered in a collection in England in 1949 by Charles M. Wormser of New Netherlands Coin Co. (privately) 1949-C. Douglas Smith-Homer K. Downing, 1952 ANA Sale, New Netherlands Coin Co. #38, lot 1992-Abe Kosoff-R. E. Naftzger, Jr., Abe Kosoff 10/1959:114-Louis Helfenstein, Lester Merkin 8/14/1964:47-unknown-Lester Merkin 10/1966:126-unknown-Lester Merkin 3/1969:671-Floyd T. Starr, Stack's 6/13/1984:50-Denis Loring 8/1985-Herman Halpern 12/11/1986-R. E. Naftzger, Jr., 1989 EAC Sale, lot 168-Dr. Allen Bennett 4/4/1992-Eric Streiner-Jay Parrino (The Mint)-Dr. Eugene Sherman, Superior 9/7/1997:83 (Superior lot ticket included).
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