Lot 278
1803 S-252 R2 Small Date and Fraction VF30. Ten points sharper but recolored glossy chocolate brown with frosty lighter steel brown toning in protected areas on the obverse and reddish chocolate toning in protected areas on the reverse. The obverse surfaces are smooth and attractive while the reverse displays a dusting of microscopic crud in the fields and protected areas. The only mark is a thin, light diagonal nick just below the curl on the neck. Very rare TDS (Terminal Die State) with a strong cud break connecting the 18 and lowest curl to the rim, and this cud extends beyond the left edge of that curl. A sharp example, possibly the sharpest known of this die state.
Estimated Value $2,000-UP.
Ex Adam Mervis, Heritage 1/10/2014:2802 (where called net EF40).
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