Lot 331
1798 S-179 R3 Style II Hair with Small 8. AU-50. Choice glossy steel brown and chocolate with frosty light brown toning covering the protected areas on both sides. Sharply struck and very attractive, just a few light contact marks from choice. The marks include a fine hairline on the throat with a disconnected extension into the field at right, a few small nicks on the bust, and a couple microscopic planchet flakes at the base of the A in STATES, as struck. M-LDS, Breen state IV, showing fresh vertical die polishing lines covering the fields. Called AU50 net EF45 and tied for CC#9 in the Noyes census, photo #23118. Bland says AU50 and tied for CC#7. DWH #2788.
Estimated Value $6,000-UP.
Ex Homer K. Downing 12/24/50-C. Douglas Smith-Dr. Robert A. Schuman, McCawley & Grellman Auctions/Superior 5/25/03:477-Jack Wadlington (via Bob Grellman & Chris McCawley) 6/30/05.
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| Realized $8,625 |
