Lot 426
1838 N-10 R1 PCGS graded MS66BN. PCGS graded MS-66 Brown. Highly lustrous and very attractive frosty bluish steel and olive brown with mint red showing in most of the protected areas on both sides. The only marks are a small spot of chocolate brown toning touching the left point of star 6 and a faint trace of a fingerprint in the field before the mouth, plus a tiny splash of darker olive toning on the right top of the N in CENT. E-MDS. The die crack down from the dentils right of the M is stronger and reaches the right upright of that letter but goes no farther. Called MS63 choice and tied for CC#3 in the Noyes census, his photo #28831. Bland says MS63 and tied for CC#2. Our grade is MS64. PCGS Population 1; none finer.
Estimated Value $1,500-UP.
Ex Howard R. Newcomb, J. C. Morgenthau 5/16/45:697-Floyd T. Starr, Stack's 6/13/84:366.
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