Lot 515
1838 Braided Hair Cent. . N-3. Del Bland graded MS-61. Iridescent light steel tan with faint traces of mint red around many devices, the surfaces frosty and satin-like. Almost flawless, however over stars three and four, near star twelve and at the left top of N in ONE are hairline scratches. Late die state, the dies worn with the dentilation on the obverse weak and completely gone on the reverse. Over star one is a narrow rim break.
Estimated Value $400 - 650.
Ex: Superior Galleries 2/91:908; unknown; Superior Galleries 10/91:1029; Tom Morley; Superior Galleries 5/92:359.
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