Lot 543
1839 N-3 R1 AU55. Head of 1838. AU-55. Mint state sharpness but there are some very faint pinscratches on the first A in AMERICA where someone tried to remove a spot of darker toning covering that letter. Otherwise the surfaces are very attractive and show only a few trivial marks, including a tiny scratch near the leaf under TE in STATES and a small rim nick right of the D in UNITED. A microscopic planchet lamination runs along the dentil tips from star 1 to below the adjacent 18, as struck. Lustrous medium brown and chocolate with frosty bluish olive toning in protected areas. MDS. The obverse fields are covered with fine die flowlines and the small depression that forms in the field between star 1 and the throat is just starting to show. The repunching at the tops of stars 2 & 5 remains visible. Removed from an NGC slab graded MS63BN (NGC label included, and it shows the attribution and Reiver provenance). DWH #2958.
Estimated Value $500-UP.
Ex C. Douglas Smith 10/26/68-Jules Reiver, Heritage 1/24/06:20124.
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