Lot 611
1840 N-6 R1 PCGS graded MS66 Brown. Large Date. Repunched 40. Highly lustrous chocolate and steel with a few tiny peeps of faded mint color on the reverse. Very attractive satiny mint frost covers this cent, and the luster is unbroken. Virtually flawless in every respect. The best identifying marks are a thin, barely visible nick between the date and star 1 and another between the O in OF and the dentils above. A wonderful cent in spite of its lack of mint red. LDS, die state c. The repunching on the 40 is dull but visible and tiny rim cud breaks show at star 13. Obvious die rust covers the earlobe. Some die rust shows on the earlobe of the earliest examples, but it is advanced on this piece. Called MS64 and CC#3 in the Noyes census, his photo #30867. Our grade is MS65, tied for CC#2 in the Grellman census.
Estimated Value $1,500-UP.
Ex Jerry Bobbe 6/79.
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