Lot 659
1843 N-8 R2 PCGS graded MS65 Red & Brown. Petite Head with Small Letters Reverse. Repunched Date. Lustrous blazing mint red fading to steel brown on the highpoints, 85% of the original color remaining. This cent is nearly flawless, and the mint frost is unbroken. The only defects are a spot of darker toning in the field close under the chin and a faint hairline under the second S in STATES. A truly fabulous cent, one of the very finest of the type. LDS, die state b. The tiny die line at the inner curl is gone and there is minor crumbling under the nose. The repunching on the date remains easily visible. This cent is plated in the new Dave Bowers book, The Whitman Encyclopedia of U.S. Half Cents and Large Cents. Called MS65 and CC#1 in the Noyes census, his photo #31575. Our grade is MS66, CC#1 in the Grellman census.
Estimated Value $2,000-UP.
Ex Milton A. Holmes, Stack's 10/5/60:1618. (Comes with a Macallister envelope indicating this cent previously came from the Dr. Henry Beckwith and William Festus Morgan collections, which has not been confirmed.).
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