Lot 207
1814 S-295 R1 Plain 4. PCGS graded MS-62 Brown. Frosty steel brown and chocolate with lighter golden brown toning in protected areas. Attractive flowline luster covers the fields on both sides. The only defects worthy of mention are a very faint hairline scratch from the curl before the ear to the nose and on to star 4 plus a speck of verdigris inside the top of the second S in STATES. M-LDS, Breen state XI, with die crumbling along the profile at the throat and below the upper lip (the so-called "bearded" die state), plus a rim cud break over ITE in UNITED reaching over the left edge of that D. The "double profile" clashmark along the nose has been lapped off the die and no longer shows. Called MS60 net AU55 and tied for CC#10 in the Noyes census, his photo #20338. Our grade is About Uncirculated-58. PCGS population 1 with 2 finer.
Estimated Value $3,000 - 4,000.
Ex B. Max Mehl Collection-T. James Clarke 1954 (via Abe Kosoff)-R. E. Naftzger, Jr.
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