Lot 833
1848 N-4 R4+ PCGS graded MS64 Brown. Boldly Repunched Date. Lustrous medium brown and steel with 10% of the original mint color showing on the obverse, 20% on the reverse. Excellent eye appeal with only a few minor distractions. These include a light horizontal nick in the middle of the jawline, another in the field under the tip of the chin, and a small splash of darker toning in the dentils over the first T in STATES. The obverse fields are slightly reflective thanks to a fresh die lapping that left behind fine polishing lines down slightly to left of vertical covering those fields. LDS, die state c. Repunching remains visible to the left of each digit in the date, but it is weaker. The repunching found earlier inside the lower loops of both 8's is now gone. Nicely struck with full radial lines in all the stars. Called MS60 and tied for CC#2 in the Noyes census, his photo #30467. Our grade is MS60+, CC#1 by a small margin among only 3 mint state examples listed in the Grellman census.
Estimated Value $500-UP.
Ex Floyd T. Starr, Stack's 6/13/84:554.
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