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Sale 115


 
Lot 62

1798 S-173 R3 Style II Hair, Small 8. PCGS graded MS-62 Brown. Glossy olive brown and chocolate with traces of lighter brown and tan toning on both sides. The surfaces are smooth and the fields are covered with satiny mint frost. The only notable marks are a long, thin diagonal nick under the earlobe and a few tiny ticks in the field well off the chin. Sharply struck E-MDS, Breen state II, with die clashmarks on the reverse. The reverse is rotated 40 degrees CCW relative to the normal head-to-foot die orientation. The fields are hard and very slightly reflective, and this cent has great eye appeal. A choice cent if not for the single nick under the ear (and this mark may be a pre-striking planchet flaw). This is the Breen plate coin for the variety. Noyes graded MS60 and CC#2, his photo #23016. Bland says MS60 and tied for CC#3 in his census. Our grade is MS60. Comes with a nice provenance. The attribution and Doug Bird Collection provenance are noted on the PCGS label. PCGS population 3; 1 finer in 63. (PCGS # 36089) Value $25,000 - UP
Ex George H. Blake, W. Elliot Woodward #73, 4/1885:791-Hillyer Ryder-New Netherlands Coin Co. #41, 9/26/1953:264-Dorothy I. Paschal 1972-R. S. Brown, Jr., Superior 9/30/1986:244-C. Douglas Smith-Dr. Robert S. Schuman, McCawley & Grellman Auctions/Superior 5/25/2003:467-Douglas F. Bird Collection (includes the Superior lot ticket).


 
Realized $15,600



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