Lot 539
1838 Coronet Head Cent. PCGS graded AU-55. Choice glossy steel brown and chocolate. Satiny mint luster covers the protected areas, especially on the reverse where the mint frost dominates the landscape. Only a few trivial defects, including a tiny nick or planchet void on the jawline, a couple very tiny ticks in the field before the chin and forehead, and a thin diagonal nick right of the base of E in ONE. MDS with a clear die crack from the dentils under star 4 to the nose and eye. An outstanding example of the overdate variety, at the lower end of the condition census for the variety but one of the finest of the die state. Our grade is EF40. Pop 1; 1 in 58; 1 in 65. Only 5 graded at PCGS for the variety. DWH #3177 (PCGS # 37216) .
Estimated Value $15,000-UP.
Ex Heritage 1/05:7071-Denis Loring 5/06.
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