Lot 176
1798 S-164 R4. NGC graded MS-62 Brown. Style I Hair with Small 8. Mint state sharpness but very lightly cleaned long ago and now retoned a very attractive and quite natural looking glossy light chocolate and medium brown with satiny mint frost covering the reverse fields. No notable spots, stains, or other defects. The eye appeal is excellent. MDS, Breen state IV, with obvious die roughness on the obverse, especially in the field before the portrait. Called Mint State sharpness net AU50 and CC#2 in the Noyes and Bland census lists, Noyes photo #21132. Our grade is About Uncirculated-55. The Naftzger envelope, which accompanies the lot, shows Ted considered this to be the finest example of the variety. Comes with a long provenance of distinguished numismatists. NGC population 1 with none finer.
Estimated Value $8,000 - 10,000.
Ex Edouard Frossard 9/1878-unknown-Burdette G. Johnson-Mary Hedgcock Sheffield-Hans M. F. Schulman 4/1951:1115-C. Douglas Smith 1958-Louis Helfenstein, Lester Merkin 8/14/1964:15-Richard Picker-R. E. Naftzger, Jr.
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| Realized $16,675 |
