Lot 190
1798 S-184 R1 Style II Hair, Small 8 PCGS graded AU58, CAC Approved. Frosty medium chocolate and light olive brown with hints of lighter steel brown faded down from mint color in protected areas around the portrait. Essentially flawless with only very light friction on the highpoints. A faint diagonal hairline in the field over the hair ribbon and a tiny tick on the left foot of the T in CENT are good identifying marks but they are difficult to see even with a glass. E-MDS, Breen state II, with several tiny lumps over the left top of the 7. Graded EF45 and tied for CC#7 in the Noyes census, his photo #20240. Our grade is AU50. The attribution and Naftzger-Reynolds provenance are noted on the PCGS Secure label. Pop 3; 2 finer in 62 at PCGS for the variety. Estimate Value $4,000 - UP
Ex Denis Loring-R. E. Naftzger, Jr.-Herman Halpern, Stack's 3/16/1988:167-R. E. Naftzger, Jr., 1990 EAC Sale, lot 48 (Halpern lot ticket and Naftzger collection envelope included).
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