Lot 533
1838 Coronet Head Cent. PCGS graded MS-63 Brown. Glossy dark steel brown and chocolate with delicate hints of bluish steel overtone. The obverse fields are smooth and very slightly reflective while the reverse fields are satiny and covered with frosty luster. No spots or stains, and the only contact mark is a tiny pinprick under the right foot of the second T in STATES. The best identifying defects are shallow low spots (caused by debris on the die) at the right end of the line under CENT and a smaller one over ON in ONE. EDS, without any dentil fusing at stars 7-8. Removed from an NGC slab graded MS64BN (NGC label included). One of only 3 examples known in mint state. Called MS60 and tied for CC#2 in the Bland census. Noyes says MS60 and CC#3, his photo #25786. Our grade is MS60. Pop 1; 1 in 64 BN. Only 4 examples of this variety graded at PCGS. DWH #2635 (PCGS # 37216) .
Estimated Value $2,000-UP.
Ex Harry Devore-Russell Wyatt, Superior 9/30/85:666 (comes with the Wyatt collection pillbox)-Wes Rasmussen, Heritage 1/13/05:3708 (the attribution and Rasmussen provenance are noted on the NGC label).
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