Lot 661
1843 N-10 R3 PCGS graded MS66 Brown. Petite Head with Small Letters Reverse. Lustrous steel and light olive brown with mint red covering 25% of the obverse. The satiny mint frost is unbroken and this cent offers outstanding eye appeal. The reverse is flawless, the obverse nearly so. The best identifying marks are a speck of darker toning close above the head and a tiny nick low on the front edge of the neck. Sharply struck with full radial lines in all the stars. E-MDS, die state a. The tiny point up to the left from the top of E in CENT is clear. Called MS63 and CC#1 in the Noyes census (which contains only 2 mint state examples with the next best only AU50), his photo #31621. Our grade is MS65, CC#1 in the Grellman census (which contains only 3 in mint state).
Estimated Value $2,000-UP.
Ex William Festus Morgan-J. G. Macallister-Milton A. Holmes-Louis Helfenstein, Lester Merkin 8/14/64:216.
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