Lot 346
1840 N-3 R1 Small Date PCGS graded MS64+ Brown, CAC Approved. Attractive lustrous medium steel brown and light chocolate with traces of faded mint red on the obverse while nearly 15% of the reverse shows mellowed mint red. The surfaces are satiny and this cent offers excellent eye appeal. The notable marks are a thin nearly vertical nick right of star 9 and a couple tiny rim nicks under the 0 in the date, none distracting, plus a few shallow planchet voids on the rim that created what looks like a rim cud at stars 12-13 (as struck). MDS, die state b. The die defects under the date are weak but still visible and the die crack through the date and most stars is clear. Traces of the die lines over the R in AMERICA remain visible as well. Our grade is MS62+, tied for CC#7 in the Grellman census. A very nice cent and it comes with an important provenance. The attribution and DuPont-Heard provenance are noted on the PCGS label. PCGS population 1; 2 finer in 66 for the variety. PCGS #395815. Estimate Value $2,000 - UP
Ex Charles J. DuPont (the Anderson Dupont Sale), Stack's 9/24/1954:809-Herbert Oechsner, Stack's 9/8/1988:169-Walter Dudgeon, McCawley & Grellman Auctions 7/30/1994:187-R. S. Brown, Jr., McCawley & Grellman Auctions/Superior 6/2/2002:12-Daniel W. Holmes, Jr., McCawley & Grellman Auctions/Goldbergs 1/30/2011:3-Tom Reynolds 9/6/2012-Gene Heard Collection.
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| Realized $3,290 |
