Lot 641
1842 N-7 R2 PCGS graded MS64 Red & Brown. Large Date. Frosty mint red fading to steel and olive brown, more than half the mellowed mint color remaining. Both sides are covered with attractive cartwheel luster and there are only a few trivial marks. These include a small spot of dark toning in the field well right of the inner curl, another over the T in UNITED, and a tiny planchet void under ED in UNITED, as struck. Nicely struck with full radial lines in all the stars. The top of the ear and the hair in that area are relatively soft, as always. This feature is a characteristic of the variety as the design bulges outward slightly in the center of the obverse, and I mention this diagnostic feature in the description for the die variety in the late date cent book. In addition, there is always some very fine die rust evident around the date and lower stars, even on the earliest examples. E-MDS, die state a. The die line under the E in AMERICA is sharp and the two fine points up from the top of that E are visible. Called MS63 and tied for CC#1 in the Noyes census, his photo #31024. Our grade is MS64, CC#1 in the Grellman census. Ted Naftzger called this piece and the following lot "Two gentlemen from Verona," and he noted same on his envelope for each piece. They arrived together from Europe before entering Ted's collection, but their connection to that Italian city is most likely just a play on words.
Estimated Value $1,000-UP.
Ex Europe-Dr. Robert J. Shalowitz 2/5/88.
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