Lot 271
1850 N-4 R1. PCGS graded MS-65 Brown. CAC. Lustrous light olive and steel brown with 10-15% of the planchet showing mint red. The surfaces are satiny and virtually flawless. The only marks, and they are barely visible, are a microscopic planchet flake between the 1 and star 1 and a pair of tiny puffs of darker bluish steel toning in the dentils at star 3. E-MDS, die state a, with a dull vertical die line up from the upper right point of star 9 to the dentils above. Previously removed from an NGC slab graded MS64RB (NGC label #601612-004). Our grade is MS63, tied for CC#1 honors for the variety in the Grellman census. The attribution and Great Pacific Collection provenance are noted on the PCGS label. PCGS population 3; none finer. (PCGS # 308894) Value $1,750 - UP
Ex Thomas D. Reynolds 2000-Great Pacific Collection.
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