Lot 435
1838 N-15 R5- EF40. EF-40. Sharpness very close to mint state but both sides suffer from myriad fine hairline scratches, strongest in the field before the portrait but present seemingly everywhere. Why the idle hands responsible for this foolishness couldn’t have selected a more common die variety is a question without answer, but the "butterfly effect" of altering what happened may have resulted in even more unfortunately results elsewhere. The scratches notwithstanding, the color is an attractive frosty light olive and steel with satiny flowline luster covering the protected areas. Peeps of very faded mint red show on the reverse. Called MS60 net EF45 and CC#2 in the Bland census. Noyes says MS60 net VF35 and CC#4, his photo #21558.
Estimated Value $3,000-UP.
Ex Walter Breen 6/13/60-John Schreuder 5/69-Del Bland-Garry F. Fitzgerald 9/15/70-C. Douglas Smith 5/9/77.
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