Lot 664
1843 N-12 R1 PCGS graded MS65 Brown. Petite Head with Small Letters Reverse. Lustrous light chocolate and steel brown with faded mint red covering 10% of the obverse and brighter mint color showing on a third of the reverse. The fields are hard and smooth giving a hint of reflectivity. Only a few very trivial marks, including a few microscopic ticks under star 7 and a tiny struck-through line off the left end of the crossbar of the 4, as struck. EDS, die state a (the die state of the proofs and earliest business strikes). The fine die finishing lines are clear on both sides and the rim cud break at the U in UNITED has not formed. Called MS63 and CC#2 of the business strikes in the Noyes census, his photo #31076. Our grade is MS64, tied for CC#1 of the business strikes in the Grellman census.
Estimated Value $1,000-UP.
Ex 1979 EAC Sale, 1/13/79:274 (via Myles Z. Gerson).
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