Lot 320
1798 S-173 R3- Style II Hair with Small 8. VF-30. Noyes Plate Coin. Ten points sharper but nicely recolored glossy chocolate and olive brown with medium brown in the field behind the head. There are faint traces of extremely fine roughness under the gloss, but the overall eye appeal is rather nice. The only notable marks are some small planchet chips at the bust and at the top of the reverse, as struck, and a short scratch on the cud break over the L in LIBERTY. Extremely rare terminal die state, Breen state IX, with a rim cud break at LI and another at CA in AMERICA (which occurs before the cud at LI in spite of the die state sequence shows in Breen’s book). This is the Noyes plate coin for the die state, his photo #23324. Called EF40 and tied for CC#9 in the Noyes census. DWH #2500.
Estimated Value $2,000-UP.
Ex Howard R. Newcomb, J. C. Morgenthau & Co. #458, 2/1945:247-C. Douglas Smith-Dr. Robert A. Schuman, McCawley & Grellman Auctions/Superior 9/5/04:394.
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