Lot 26
1817 N-6 R1 PCGS graded MS65BN. PCGS graded MS-65 Brown. Highly lustrous bluish steel brown and chocolate with 5% of the original mint color remaining on the obverse, 25% on the reverse. The surfaces are satiny and offer outstanding eye appeal. An area of slightly darker toning right of star 13 is the only mark visible without a glass, but a close examination also reveals a dull contact mark on the upper lip and another hidden in the hair below the left edge of star 8. Sharply struck EDS with delicate repunching visible at the bottom of the N in ONE and bottoms of the C & N in CENT. Called MS65 and tied for finest known in the Bland census. Noyes says MS62 and tied for CC#7, his photo #21728. Our grade is MS63. PCGS Population 2; none finer.
Estimated Value $1,000-UP.
Ex T. James Clarke 1948-Willard C. Blaisdell 9/76-Del Bland 9/76.
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