Lot 92
1827 N-11 R1 PCGS graded MS64 Red & Brown, CAC Approved. Beautiful lustrous medium steel brown and olive with delicate overtones of light bluish steel and 20-25% of the coin showing mint red. Nearly flawless with just a few trivial contact marks. A pair of tiny, very light parallel diagonal ticks on the cheek right of the lower lip may help identify this cent, but they are difficult to see with a glass. MDS with crumbling on the brow but no crumbling on the upper lip. Graded MS63 and tied for CC#3 in the Noyes census, his photo #33402. Bland says MS65 and CC#1. Our grade is MS64. A great cent any way you look at it. Removed from an NGC slab graded MS65RB (NGC label #315583-007). The attribution and Reale-Ahumada provenance are noted on the PCGS label. PCGS population 1; 2 finer, 1 in 64+, 1 in 65 for the variety. PCGS #36869. Estimate Value $3,000 - UP
Ex MacAllister-Milton Holmes, Stack's 10/1960:1533-Gene Reale, Sotheby's 1/1998:60-Manuel Ahumada Collection.
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