Lot 857
1848 N-15 R5- PCGS graded MS65 Brown. Frosty bluish steel and olive with generous traces of mint color showing on both sides, perhaps 5-10%, mostly on the obverse. The surfaces are satiny and the eye appeal is excellent. No spots or stains, just a narrow scuff of very fine hairline scratches in the field close before the tip of the nose, and these barely break the toning. Sharply struck with radial lines in all the stars and fully impressed details in the devices. MDS, die state b, with a fine die crack through the top of TES extending to the dentils over the adjacent A. Called MS60 and tied for CC#1 in the Noyes census, his photo #30517. Our grade is MS62, CC#1 in the Grellman census.
Estimated Value $1,000-UP.
Ex Herman Halpern, Stack's 3/16/88:611.
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