Lot 403
1835 N-3 R3 EF45. EF-45. Glossy medium brown and chocolate with underlying frosty mint luster covering the fields and protected areas. There are specks of dark olive toning peppered about the field at stars 6-11 with some more on the reverse, mostly at ES-OF-AM. The only contact marks are a small rim nick under the 3 in the date and a tiny tick just right of the eye. E-MDS, before the tiny rim cuds occur in the dentils roots below the 35 or at the bottom of star 2. The reverse is rotated 20 degrees CW. Called EF45 and tied for CC#3 in the Bland census. Noyes says AU50 net VF35 and CC#4, his photo #26078. This variety is unknown in mint state. Removed from an NGC slab graded MS63BN (NGC label included). DWH #2619.
Estimated Value $1,500-UP.
Ex Howard R. Newcomb, J. C. Morgenthau 5/45:660 (comes with the Newcomb collection pillbox)-Floyd T. Starr, Stack's 6/13/84:295-Wes Rasmussen, Heritage 1/13/05:3632 (the attribution and Rasmussen provenance are noted on the NGC label).
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| Realized $2,300 |
