Lot 401
1837 N-17 R4 PCGS graded MS65BN. PCGS graded MS-65 Brown. Plain Hair Cord with Medium Letters. Lustrous very light olive and sea green with subtle overtones of light bluish steel. The fields are covered with satiny mint frost and the eye appeal is excellent. Just a few minor marks, including a tiny planchet chip just right of the date and a small splash of reddish steel toning at MER. M-LDS with a slightly raised retained cud break at the bottom of the wreath, strongest just below the end of the wreath stem. In addition there is a small rim cud break between the date and star 13. (In the late state, this cud right of the date extends to under the 7 and the retained cud on the reverse is raised more.) In this die state the die faces are more nearly parallel so the strike is relatively even, although not perfectly so as the upper left is still more strongly struck than the lower right. Called MS63 and CC#1 in the Noyes census, his photo #21122. Bland also says MS63 but CC#2 in his list behind the preceding example. Our grade is MS63. PCGS Population 2; none finer.
Estimated Value $3,000-UP.
Ex Judge Joseph Sawicki, Stack's 2/27/54:678-Emanual Taylor 10/60.
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