Lot 187
1798 S-181 R3 Style II Hair, Small 8 PCGS graded AU50+, CAC Approved. Variety with a Large Fraction (with Large 0's over Small 0's in the denominator). Choice medium chocolate brown and steel with frosty lighter steel brown toning in protected areas and darker steel brown on the highpoints. A smooth, very attractive cent. Lightly worn on the highpoints with only trivial contact marks. A thin diagonal nick on the curl before the ear lobe and a dull nick down the right side of the E in LIBERTY can help identify this cent. MDS, Breen state II. There are a few die cracks on the obverse including a rather strong horizontal one under the hair ribbon and a lighter one from the rim through the bust and truncation into the field left of the lower curls. The reverse is rotated 45 degrees CCW, which is not unusual for this variety. The Large 0's over Small 0's in the denominator are sharp. In addition, the bottom of a stray 8 shows in the drapery over the right side of the normal 8 in the date, an interesting feature not mentioned in the Breen reference. Graded EF40 Choice and CC#6 in the Noyes census, his photo #27730. Our grade is VF35+, very close to EF40. The attribution and Reynolds provenance are noted on the PCGS Secure label. Pop 1; 3 finer at PCGS for the variety, 1 in 55, 1 in 62, 1 in 64+. Estimate Value $3,000 - UP
Ex Henry C. Hines-Homer K. Downing, 1952 ANA Sale, New Netherlands Coin Co. #38, lot 1835-C. Douglas Smith-Herman Halpern, Stack's 3/16/1988:164-Tom Reynolds Collection (includes the Halpern lot ticket).
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