Lot 602
1840 N-2 R6 (as a proof) PCGS graded PR64 Red & Brown. Small 18 over Large 18 variety. Attractive mint red mellowing to light reddish steel, more than half the mint color remaining. The fields are nicely reflective but do show a few faint hairlines. This cent would be a gem except for a spot of microscopic carbon midway between stars 1 & 2 and a smaller one in the field just right of star 4, plus a patch of darker toning at TE in STATES. A tiny, faint planchet lamination shows under the right pendant of the second T in STATES, as struck. Very sharply struck with full radial lines in the stars and crisp, full dentils around both sides. The Small 18 over Large 18 feature on the date is bold. Tied for second finest known behind a slightly finer example that has far less mint color. Called Proof-65 and finest of the proof strikes in the Noyes census, his photo #30969. Our grade is Proof-63 and finest known in the Grellman census.
Estimated Value $6,000-UP.
Ex Dr. George P. French, B. Max Mehl 1929 FPL, lot 598-T. James Clarke 1954.
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