Lot 427
1838 N-10 R1 PCGS graded MS65BN. PCGS graded MS-65 Brown. Lustrous chocolate and steel brown with traces of mint color showing on both sides. The fields are covered with satiny mint frost and show only a few minor marks, including a spot of very fine carbon in the field off the tip of the nose and another over the C in CENT. MDS. The die crack at the M in AMERICA extends through the M and base of the adjacent A ending in the field just left of the A. Called MS62 and tied for CC#9 in the Noyes census, his photo #20992. Our grade is MS62+. PCGS Population 1; 1 finer in 66BN.
Estimated Value $800-UP.
Ex Francis H. Lee, who bequeathed the coin to the Essex Institute in Salem, Massachusetts, circa 1913-Stack's sale of the Essex Institute collection 2/6/75:211.
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