Lot 609
1840 N-6 R1 PCGS graded MS65 Red & Brown. Large Date. Repunched 40. Very attractive frosty mint red fading to bluish steel, 75% of the mellowed mint color showing on the obverse, 35% on the reverse. About as flawless a cent as possible for something this old. The best identifying marks are a very subtle spot of slightly darker steel toning in the field well left of star 11 and another between the N & I in UNITED. Unbroken cartwheel luster covers both sides. Very sharply struck E-MDS, die state b. The repunching on the 40 is sharp but the die line at the dentil tips above RIC is gone. For all practical purposes, this is the earliest die state available as pieces with the line over RIC (die state a) are extremely rare. Called MS66 and finest known in the Noyes census, his photo #30877. Our grade is MS66 and CC#1 as well in the Grellman census. Arguably the finest 1840 Large Date cent by a small margin.
Estimated Value $2,000-UP.
Ex Loye L. Lauder, William Doyle Galleries 12/15/83:433.
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