Lot 789
1847 N-24 R1 PCGS graded MS65 Brown. Beautiful frosty steel and light olive brown. The surfaces are covered with satiny mint frost and the eye appeal of this cent is outstanding. Very subtle hints of faded mint color are bleeding through on the reverse. This cent is virtually flawless. The best identifying mark is a faint spot of slightly darker reddish brown toning near the dentils under the right edge of star 1. Sharply struck M-LDS, die state c, the late state of Newcomb's old #25. (The Grellman attribution guide for this series says die state c is Newcomb's #9, but this is an error. Die state c is really the later state of Newcomb's old #25.) The obverse fields do not show any die lines except for short points down to the right from the main curl, and the reverse is cracked through the tops of ME to the dentils at either end. The fine die crack from the dentils to the base of the 4 (which is present in all die states) is clear. Called MS64 and tied for CC#3 in the Noyes census, his photo #31364. Our grade is MS63+, tied for CC#6 overall but equal to the finest known of the N-25 die state.
Estimated Value $750-UP.
Ex Willard C. Blaisdell 9/76 (via Del Bland).
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