Lot 293
1848 N-21 R4- MS64. Lustrous bright original mint red mellowing to light steel brown on the highpoints, 75% of the original color remaining. Would qualify as a gem cent if not for a light vertical nick right of the nostril and a small splash of very light carbon in the dentils at the second S in STATES. MDS, die state c. There is crumbling inside the top of the E in CENT in addition to the earlier crumbling inside the bottom of that letter. CC#2 behind a slightly finer example in the Grellman census. DWH #2096.
Estimated Value $800-UP.
Ex Heritage 1997 ANA Sale, lot 8160-Chris McCawley and Tony Terranova 8/97-R. S. Brown, Jr., McCawley & Grellman Auctions/Superior 6/2/2002:571.
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| Realized $1,783 |
