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Lot 9

1840 N-9 R3 Large Date PCGS graded MS64 Brown. Lustrous medium steel brown and chocolate with faded mint red showing in protected areas on both sides. No spots or stains, only a few trivial ticks. The notable ones are a thin horizontal nick on the cheek right of the lower lip, a small tick off the upper right point of star 3, and a few nicks between stars 7 & 8. The reverse is essentially flawless. Nicely struck EDS, die state b early (die state a with an uncracked obverse is unknown and may not exist). There are fine, sharp die lines extending down to the left from the dentil tips over MERIC and the always-present die crack from the dentils under star 4 toward the nose is extremely faint and extends only into the field below that star. In addition the portrait is covered with circular pantograph lines mixed with extremely fine die rust (microscopic lumps). A great die state. Our grade is MS62, CC#5 in the Grellman census. The attribution and Twin Leaf Collection provenance are noted on the PCGS label. PCGS population 1; 1 finer in 65. Estimated Value $1,500-UP

Ex Tom Reynolds 4/1995-R. S. Brown, Jr., McCawley & Grellman Auctions/Superior 6/2/2002:34-Jack Wadlington (the Twin Leaf Collection), Stack's Bowers 7/16/2015:2339-Fred Iskra Collection (both lot tickets plus the Brown collection envelope and Wadlington notes are included).


 
Realized $2,585



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