Lot 891
1848 N-35 R2 PCGS graded MS65 Brown. Beautiful and highly lustrous steel and chocolate brown with frosty very faded mint color showing in the protected areas on both sides. The only mark is a faint, barely visible spot of darker toning hidden in the leaves under the first T in STATES. M-LDS, die state b. The bar in the dentils over the left side of the U in UNITED is essentially gone, just a faint hint of this die mark remaining. The shallow lump over star 3 is visible to the naked eye, but it is not fully developed. Called MS63 and tied for CC#2 in the Noyes census, his photo #30511. Our grade is MS63, tied for CC#4 in the Grellman census.
Estimated Value $750-UP.
Ex Willard C. Blaisdell 9/76 (via Del Bland).
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