Lot 610
1840 N-6 R1 PCGS graded MS64 Red & Brown. Large Date. Repunched 40. The obverse is bright frosty mint red fading to steel brown on the highpoints, 80% of the mint color remaining. The reverse is 90% red but the mint color is slightly subdued on this side. There are faint traces of an old fingerprint on the obverse and a thin struck-through line or planchet crease from the forelock through star 5 to the dentils at left, as struck. A pair of barely visible hairlines are located under star 9 are the only other defects on an otherwise fantastic cent. M-LDS, die state c. The repunching on the 40 is still clear but the tiny point extending to the left from the left point of star 13 is gone and several small rim cud breaks show at that star. Called MS65 and CC#2 in the Noyes census, his photo #30911. Our grade is MS64, tied for CC#3 in the Grellman census.
Estimated Value $2,000-UP.
Ex Dr. George P. French, B. Max Mehl 1929 FPL, lot 603-B. Max Mehl 4/24/1947.
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