Lot 142
1854 N-23 R2 PCGS graded MS65+ Red & Brown, CAC Approved. Lustrous mint red fading to steel brown and light olive with 20% of the obverse and more than half of the reverse showing original mint red. Sharply struck and very attractive with only a few trivial marks. The notable ones are traces of an old fingerprint at stars 5 & 6, a pair of tiny contact marks hidden in the dentils at the bottom of the reverse, and a small rim nick over the A in STATES. MDS, die state b. The fine die line up from star 11 is gone and a delicate die clashmark reaches up from the right top of the T in CENT. Our grade is MS63+, very close to MS64, and CC#3 for the variety in the Grellman census. The attribution and Koshkarian provenance are noted on the PCGS label. PCGS population 1; none finer for the variety at PCGS. Estimate Value $1,250 - UP
Ex Doug Bird 12/1997-R. E. Naftzger, Jr. (via Bill Noyes)-Doug Bird 6/2004 (includes the Naftzger collection envelope).
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