Lot 616
1840 N-9 R3 PCGS graded MS65 Brown. Large Date. Lustrous steel brown and light chocolate with traces of faded mint color on both sides. Satiny mint frost covers the planchet and the only marks are a spot of darker olive brown toning at the right end of the eyebrow and a dull nick on the earlobe. MDS+, die state d, with a fine die crack extending across the obverse from the dentils under star 4 through the portrait and star 11 to the dentils right of that star. The crack is weak on the portrait but clearly visible in the fields on either side of the portrait. The pantograph lines (concentric circles of raised die lines) on the portrait are still clear. Called MS63 and tied for CC#2 in the Noyes census, his photo #30962. Our grade is MS60, CC#6 in the Grellman census.
Estimated Value $1,000-UP.
Ex Louis Helfenstein, Lester Merkin 8/14/64:200-Judge Joseph Sawicki, Stack's 2/27/54:9-C. Douglas Smith-Del Bland 9/73-Myles Z. Gerson 7/80.
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