Lot 205
1814 S-295 R1 Plain 4. PCGS graded MS-64 Brown. Frosty dark steel brown and chocolate with traces of lighter reddish steel brown toning faded down from mint color in protected areas. Satiny mint luster shows through the toning in the fields. Sharply struck with nice eye appeal and only a few minor marks. These include a small spot of very fine carbon under the left foot of the N in UNITED and a microscopic planchet void on the bottom edge of the line below CENT, as struck. E-MDS, Breen state III, with strong die clashmarks that create a very strong "double profile" effect along the entire nose. There is a fine die crack from the bust tip to the dentils below star 1 but the arc crack through star 11, lowest curl, and the 8 in the date has not formed. Struck very slightly off center to K-5, and this is noted on the Naftzger envelope. Called MS60 and tied for CC#6 in the Noyes census, his photo #20056. Our grade is Mint State-60. PCGS population 2 with none finer.
Estimated Value $8,000 - 10,000.
Ex R. Coulton Davis 1/1890:2562-Charles J. Dupont, Stack's 9/24/1954:522-Emanuel Taylor 10/60-R. E. Naftzger.
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