Lot 576
1851 N-40 R5 PCGS graded MS63 Brown. Frosty mint red fading to steel brown on the highpoints with about a third of the planchet showing mellowed mint color. Not sure why PCGS saw this as a "BN" cent. Just a few trivial defects, including a minor spot of slightly darker toning near the hair under the left side of star 7, a nick hidden in the hair over the B in LIBERTY, and a small spot of shallow reddish carbon touching the leaf under the I in UNITED. MDS. The portrait and stars are blunted (as always on this obverse die) and the point up from the top of the E in CENT is sharp. A beautiful example of this rare variety. Our grade is MS63+. Tied for CC#1 in the Grellman census. Pop 1; the finest MSBN example graded at both services. Estimate Value $2,000 - UP
Ex Stack's (privately)-R. S. Brown, Jr., Superior 9/30/1986:1288 (where misattributed as N-26)-J. R. Grellman Collection 8/1992-R. S. Brown, Jr., McCawley & Grellman Auctions/Superior 6/2/2002:1029-Tom Reynolds 5/4/2013-Fred Iskra Collection, McCawley & Grellman Auctions/Goldbergs 9/2016:272 (includes the Grellman collection envelope and both Brown lot tickets and the Iskra lot ticket).
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