Lot 589
1854 N-5 R4- Repunched 18 MS64. Bright original mint red fading to steel brown on the highpoints, about 75% of the original color remaining. There is a small spot of very fine carbon close under star 9 and a faint nick on the nose even with the eye. The cheek and upper half of the neck are covered with a shallow low spot and the coronet tip over LIB is softly struck. MDS, die state b late. The repunching at the 18 is weak but still visible and the double die clashmarks at the left top of the O in ONE are barely visible. CC#1 in the Grellman census. Removed from an NGC slab graded MS65RB (NGC label included). DWH #2313.
Estimated Value $1,000-UP.
Ex McCawley & Grellman Auctions/Superior 9/14/03:1016.
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