Lot 433
1838 N-14 R4 PCGS graded AU50. PCGS graded AU-50. Frosty dark olive and steel with lighter steel brown toning on the highpoints. There is a collection of microscopic contact marks in the field before the nose, a splash of silvery toning on the left side of star 11, and a nick in the dentils off the end of the wreath stem. Very rare M-LDS with a rim cud break from over star 7 nearly to star 8, a precursor to the famous full cud break that follows soon after. Called EF45 and CC#9 overall in the Noyes census but finest known of the die state by a very wide margin. Our grade is EF45. PCGS Population 1; 1 finer in 64BN.
Estimated Value $1,000-UP.
Ex Doug Bird 5/96.
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