Lot 898
1856 N-21 R2 Italic 5. NGC graded MS-66 Brown. Beautiful, highly lustrous bluish steel and olive brown with generous traces of faded mint red showing on the reverse. This cent offers great eye appeal. The satiny mint frost is unbroken covering even the highest points of the designs. The only defects are a shallow planchet flake near the dentils right of star 7 and several more on the rim over UNIT, all as struck. E-MDS, die state a. The die line from the dentils to the top of the second S in STATES is clear. Noyes photo #31227. Our grade is MS63+, very close to MS64, and CC#3 in the Grellman census. The attribution is noted on the NGC label. Population 1; 1 finer in 67 at NGC.
Estimated Value $1,000-UP.
Ex Darwin B. Palmer, Jr. 12/1986-R. E. Naftzger, Jr., McCawley & Grellman Auctions/Goldbergs 9/7/2009:1293-Kenneth Goodman.
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| Realized $1,880 |
