Lot 175
1798 S-161 R2. NGC graded MS-63 Brown. Style I Hair with Small 8. Lustrous chocolate brown with satiny mint frost covering the fields on both sides. Just the barest hint of rub on the highest points of the design from mint state. The only marks, and they are barely visible, are a very thin nick in the field before the neck, a couple light contact marks at the top of the wreath, a small spot of slightly darker toning on the 7 in the date, and another spot of dark toning on the leaf above the right wreath stem. Nicely struck E-MDS, Breen state IV late. This is the Noyes plate coin for the variety, his photo #20613. Called AU55 and tied for CC#3 in the Bland condition census. Noyes says EF45 and tied for CC#7 overall but finest of the die state. Our grade is About Uncirculated-55. NGC population 1 with none finer.
Estimated Value $8,000 - 10,000.
Ex Carl Wurtzbach-Virgil M. Brand-Emanuel Taylor 10/1960-R. E. Naftzger, Jr.
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