Lot 659
1805 S-267 R1. PCGS graded MS-63 Brown. CAC Approved. Lustrous steel brown and chocolate with frosty tan faded down from mint red in protected areas. This cent offers great eye appeal, but it is not quite perfect. There is a hairline scratch in the field close before the neck, a microscopic hairline down the neck, and some dark crud nestled into the protected areas of the wreath under UN in UNITED. MDS, Breen state III, with dull die clashmarks on both sides. Called AU55 by Bland; Noyes photo #24201. Our grade is AU58. The attribution and Ralls provenance is shown on the PCGS label. PCGS population 1; none finer. The only MS example graded by PCGS for the variety. (PCGS # 36427) .
Estimated Value $10,000-UP.
Ex Paul Kagin-R. E. Naftzger, Jr.-E. H. Schwartz, Abe Kosoff 10/11/1961:330-R. E. Naftzger, Jr.-R. Gildred, Kagin's 10/14/1983:1069 (lot ticket included)-Denis Loring-Dr. Philip W. Ralls.
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