Lot 1273
1856 N-8 R4 PCGS graded MS64 Red & Brown. Upright 5. Lustrous light olive and steel brown with at least a third of the frosty mint color remaining. Traces of old fingerprints cover much of the obverse and there is a very faint scuff in the field right of star 4. A speck of carbon at the dentil tips left of star 6 is a good identifying mark. MDS, die state b. A fine die crack meanders from the dentils over the left top of the M across MERIC. Called MS64 and CC#3 in the Noyes census, his photo #31422. Our grade is MS63, tied for CC#8 in the Grellman census.
Estimated Value $500-UP.
Ex Willard C. Blaisdell 9/76 (via Del Bland).
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