Lot 37
1794 S-60 R3. PCGS graded MS-64 Brown. CAC Approved. Choice lustrous olive brown and steel with lighter steel brown toning in protected areas and traces of faded mint red showing on both sides. Sharply struck and absolutely beautiful. No spots or stains, and the only mark is a thin diagonal nick on the forehead. MDS, Breen state III, with heavy die clashmarks on both sides and a die crack through LIBE and the top of the cap into the field left of the cap. The date is sharply doubled. Graded MS62 Choice and CC#1 in the Noyes census, his photo #20649. Bland says MS61 and CC#1. This is the only mint state example listed in either census. Our grade is MS63. Graded MS70 by Ted Naftzger. This is the Noyes plate coin for the variety in his 1991 reference. A great cent with a great provenance. The attribution and Oswald-Reynolds provenance are noted on the PCGS Secure label. Pop 1; none finer at PCGS for the variety .
Estimated Value $60,000-UP.
Ex Sir Rowland Denys Guy Winn (Major, The Lord St. Oswald, M. C.) 10/1795-Oswald Family descendants-Christie, Manson & Woods, Ltd. (London) 10/13/1964:155 (hammered for 790 pounds)-A. H. Baldwin & Sons, Ltd. (London)-Dorothy Paschal-Dr. William H. Sheldon 4/19/1972-R. E. Naftzger, Jr., 2/23/1992-Eric Streiner 3/1992-Denis Loring 7/30/1993 (includes the Naftzger collection envelope).
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