Lot 392
1837 N-13 R2 PCGS graded MS66BN. PCGS graded MS-66 Brown. Plain Hair Cord with Medium Letters. Choice highly lustrous bluish steel and light chocolate brown faded down from mint color with subtle undertones of faded mint color showing through on the obverse. The surfaces are satiny and as close to perfect as you could expect on a cent from this era. The only mark worthy of mention, and it takes a glass to find, is an inconspicuous planchet lamination tucked into a leaf over the two berries left of the O in ONE. MDS with fine die flowlines covering the fields but the repunching at the left top of the N in UNITED is clear. Called MS63 and tied for CC#7 in the Noyes census, his photo #20534. Our grade is MS65. PCGS Population 1; none finer.
Estimated Value $2,000-UP.
Ex A. J. Fink (dealer from Dayton, Ohio)-T. James Clarke 10/54.
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