Lot 1108
1852 N-8 R2 PCGS graded MS64 Red & Brown. Lustrous mint red fading to steel brown on the highpoints, 75% of the mint color showing, mostly on the obverse. The notable marks are a dark spot in the field under the outer edge of the hairbun and a planchet flake in the dentils off the tip of the wreath ribbon (as struck). Most of the neck is covered with a very shallow low spot caused by debris on the die, and a sliver of this low spot reaches down to the left edge of the 8. MDS, die state c. Faint die cracks reach from the tip of the coronet to the dentils over star 5 and from the lowest curl to the dentils below. The reverse is uncracked. Called MS65, tied for CC#4 in the Noyes census, his photo #30712. Our grade is MS64+, tied for CC#7 in the Grellman census.
Estimated Value $400-UP.
Ex Richard S. Herman 1983.
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