Lot 432
1838 N-14 R4 PCGS graded MS64BN. PCGS graded MS-64 Brown. Lustrous light olive and chocolate brown with frosty lighter steel brown covering the fields and hints of bluish steel overtone in the protected areas. The fields are satiny and very attractive, and there are suggestions of very faded mint color bleeding through in protected areas of the reverse. The notable marks are a couple tiny carbon spots on the lower edge of the bust and a small rim nick below star 1. Nicely struck EDS, although stars 1-5 do not show all their radial lines and many of the dentils are not fully impressed. Called MS62 and tied for CC#1 in the Noyes census, his photo #36903. Bland says MS62 and finest known. Our grade is MS62. PCGS Population 1; none finer.
Estimated Value $3,000-UP.
Ex Sheldon Freed 3/91 (via J. R. Grellman).
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