Lot 258
1831 N-8 R3 PCGS graded MS64BN. PCGS graded MS-64 Brown. Large Letters Reverse. Lustrous light olive and bluish steel with very subtle overtones of sea green on the reverse. The surfaces are satiny and flawless except for a spot of darker reddish chocolate toning in the field over the upper left point of star 12. MDS with a fine die crack through the bottom of UNITE and the ribbon tip into the field under the wreath plus another through the top of TED-ST. A third tiny die crack connects the tip of the wreath stem to the foot of the adjacent A. Sharply struck with full radial lines in all the stars. The reverse is rotated 30 degrees CCW from a normal head-to-foot orientation. Called MS65 and CC#1 in the Noyes census, his photo #21350. Bland says MS60+ and tied for CC#2. Our grade is MS64. PCGS Population 1; none finer.
Estimated Value $1,000-UP.
Ex Homer K. Downing-Abe Kosoff-Numismatic Gallery 7 & 8/1951:863-C. A. Darnell, Abe Kosoff 5/3/52:555.
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