Lot 200
1825 N-6 R3. PCGS graded MS-64 Brown. Attractive lustrous light steel brown with delicate overtones of bluish steel in the protected areas and hints of underlying very faded mint color remaining on the obverse. The surfaces are satiny and show only a few minor marks. These include a faint hairline scratch in the field right of star 2, a very light scuff on the chin, two specks of darker toning between stars 7 & 8, a tiny nick on the nostril, and some very fine carbon inside the first A in AMERICA. M-LDS. The reverse center dot is gone, a faint die crack meanders from the leaf over O in ONE through the N and down to the N in CENT, and the reverse is rotated 40 degrees CCW. Nicely struck with excellent eye appeal. Removed from an NGC slab graded MS65BN (NGC label included, and the label shows the attribution). Our grade is MS60.Pop 2: None finer. Only 3 examples graded at PCGS for the variety. DWH #2643 (PCGS # 36796) .
Estimated Value $5,000-UP.
Ex Del Bland 8/67-Carl Windon 3/31/88-Del Bland-Stu Hodge, 2004 EAC Sale, McCawley & Grellman Auctions 4/17/04:412-Heritage 1/13/05:7061.
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