Lot 418
1801 S-220 R3 Error Fraction 1/000. VF-30. Close to VF35 in sharpness but there are a few light contact marks, including a few small nicks hidden in the hair right of the ribbon, a few more tiny ones in the field before the face, a very light rim bruise at the N in UNITED, and a dull nick-like planchet chip above the E in CENT, as struck. In addition, there is a tiny spot of very fine carbon in the field right of the neck. Frosty chocolate and steel with satiny luster in protected areas of the reverse. LDS, Breen state VII, with a cud break connecting AM to the rim above and cud breaks connecting the first 1 and 01 in the date to the rim below. The error fraction feature is bold. Called VF30 and tied for CC#4 in the Bland census. Noyes says VF30 and tied for CC#4, his photo #25166. Removed from a PCGS slab graded XF40 (PCGS label included, and it shows the attribution and Husak provenance). PCGS Population 1; the only example graded at PCGS for the variety. DWH #3487.
Estimated Value $3,000-UP.
Ex Catherine Bullowa-Denis Loring 12/12/84-Jack Robinson, Superior 1/29/89:473-Wes Rasmussen, Heritage 1/13/05:3260-Walter Husak, Heritage 2/15/08:2223.
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