Lot 306
1798 S-167 R1 Style II Hair with Large 8. EF-45. Glossy medium brown and chocolate with delicate mottling of darker olive brown toning on the obverse and frosty flowline luster remaining in the fields and protected areas. The surfaces are smooth except for traces of extremely fine roughness around EN in CENT and a small planchet fissure in the field near the dentils off the mouth, as struck. MDS, Breen state III. A die crack extends from the eye to the rim right of the Y in LIBERTY. Removed from an NGC slab graded AU53BN (NGC label included, and the attribution is noted on the label). Graded EF45 by Del Bland, but not in the top 10 listed in his condition census. DWH #2782.
Estimated Value $4,000-UP.
Ex Stack’s FPL Summer 1997-Stack’s 10/97:48-Stack’s 3/98:48-Stack’s 6/98:1048-Tom Reynolds 8/1/2000-Jack Wadlington (via Bob Grellman & Chris McCawley) 6/30/05.
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| Realized $4,370 |
