Lot 205
1825 N-9 R2. PCGS graded MS-63 Brown. Choice glossy steel brown and chocolate with frosty light steel brown in protected areas. Excellent luster and eye appeal, the best identifying marks being a small splash of reddish brown toning under the first T in STATES and another at F-A. MDS. There is scattered very fine rust in the fields (shows as tiny lumps on the coin), strongest off the tip of the nose and around ES-OF, but the fine die crack from the brow to the dentils over star 3 has not formed. Called AU55 net AU50 in the Noyes census, his photo #34763. Our grade is AU55. Pop 1:1 in 64;1 in 65. Only 3 examples graded at PCGS for the variety. DWH #2462 (PCGS # 36805) .
Estimated Value $1,500-UP.
Ex Tony Terranova 1996-Stu Hodge, 2004 EAC Sale, McCawley & Grellman Auctions 4/17/04:417.
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