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Lot 334
1835 N-13 R4 MS60. MS-60. Head of 1834 with Small 8 and Stars. Mint red fading to bluish steel brown and light olive, about 25% of the original mint color remaining. There are a couple fine pinscratches that skip from the field before the neck across the bust tip with one fading out above the 3 in the date while the other reaches to near the dentils right of the 5. A couple tiny, far less visible scratches can be found in the field before the neck and under the right end of the line below CENT. Struck from the earliest state of the obverse die with needle-sharp repunching on the 5 in the date. The obverse of this cent looks every bit like a proof strike with smooth, reflective fields and extremely sharp dentils all the way around. The reverse, however, is the product of a worn die that was used in several previous marriages. It has wavy fields that are covered with radial flowlines that create attractive cartwheel luster rather than the mirror-like reflectivity found on this obverse. This cent is listed as a one-sided proof in the Denis Loring census of proof large cents with a grade of Proof/MS63 (obverse/reverse). Del Bland also considers this piece to be a one-sided proof, and his grade is Proof-60/MS60+. Walter Breen lists this piece as a one-sided proof in his Encyclopedia of United States and Colonial Proof Coins 1722-1977, and it was cataloged as such when it was sold in the Floyd T. Starr sale conducted by Stack's in 1984. This is the only one-sided proof example of the variety listed by Breen, Loring, and Bland. Both sides are plated in the Newcomb book and in Wayte Raymond's Standard Catalog. PCGS would not grade this cent because of the scratches. Too bad about the scratches, but this is still a remarkable, very significant cent that comes with an impressive provenance. Our grade is Proof-60 obverse, MS62 reverse.
Estimated Value $5,000-UP.
Ex Dr. Henry Beckwith, Samuel H. Chapman 4/27/1923:83 (where plated with the scratches visible)-William Festus Morgan, J. C. Morgenthau 6/16/32:270-Howard R. Newcomb, J. C. Morgenthau 5/16/45:668-Floyd T. Starr, Stack's 6/13/84:308.
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