Lot 1198
1854 N-10 R2 PCGS graded MS65 Red & Brown. Lustrous mint red faded to dark bluish steel and olive on the devices with half of the planchet displaying mint color. Great eye appeal, only a couple microscopic marks from flawless. These include a very shallow planchet flake at the outer point of star 6 and a tiny struck-through line right of the lower point of that same star, both barely visible mint-made defects. E-MDS, die state c early. The obverse is uncracked and a faint die crack meanders from the dentils through ED to the wreath below. A stronger but still very fine die crack extends from the dentils through the C in AMERICA and the wreath to the bases of NT in CENT and weakly on to the O in ONE. Called MS64 and CC#3 in the Noyes census, his photo #30769. Our grade is MS65, CC#4 in the Grellman census.
Estimated Value $500-UP.
Ex Willard C. Blaisdell-Del Bland 6/78.
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