Lot 25
1794 S-41 R3. PCGS graded AU-50. Very attractive frosty steel and chocolate brown with lighter brown toning in protected areas on the reverse. No hint of corrosion or verdigris and only microscopic contact marks. The best identifying marks are a tiny pinprick at the leaf point under the C in AMERICA and a thin nick or planchet chip through the right top of the T in CENT. Nicely struck E-MDS, Breen state III, with a radial crack through the D in UNITED to the top of the C in CENT but no trace of the later crack down through AT in STATES. The reverse is rotated 20 to 25 degrees CCW relative to the normal head-to-foot die orientation. Graded VF35 net VF30 and tied for CC#6 honors in the Noyes census, his photo #20134. The Noyes census shows only a single example of this variety that grades above EF40. Bland says VF35 and tied for CC#4 in the Breen/Bland census. Our grade is VF35. The attribution and Reynolds provenance are shown on the PCGS Secure label. Pop 1; 2 finer at PCGS for the variety, 1 in AU53 and 1 in AU55 (PCGS # 35588) .
Estimated Value $7,500-UP.
Ex Hathaway & Bowers FPLs 1970-1971-John W. Adams 1/1975-Denis Loring 5/7/1983-Jack Robinson, Superior 1/29/1989:67-John Sype 4/1991-James H. Goudge-Walter Husak-Fred Borcherdt 5/2013.
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| Realized $11,456 |
