Lot 400
1837 N-17 R4 PCGS graded MS65BN. PCGS graded MS-65 Brown. Plain Hair Cord with Medium Letters. Medium brown and light chocolate with delicate hints of bluish steel overtone and original mint color covering about 10% of the obverse and at least 20% of the reverse. Close to a "Red & Brown" designation. Great eye appeal. The only mark of any significance is a thin scuff across the outer point of star 13. E-MDS with a clear rim cud break at star 5 but without the die crack from the stem tip to the dentils. Struck with the dies not in perfect axial alignment (the die faces not parallel) resulting in a very sharp impression on the upper left area of the obverse and a slightly weak impression on the lower right, as usual on the early states of this variety. Called MS65 and CC#1 in the Bland census. Noyes says MS62 and CC#2, his photo #21784. Our grade is MS63. PCGS Population 2; none finer.
Estimated Value $3,000-UP.
Ex Howard R. Newcomb, J. C. Morgenthau 5/16/45:689-Floyd T. Starr, 1949 ANA Sale 8/23/49:1724.
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