Lot 65
1812 S-289 R1 Large Date PCGS graded AU58. Frosty dark steel brown and chocolate with lighter steel brown toning in protected areas, particularly on the obverse. Flowline luster covers the fields and protected areas. Looks mint state but there is a touch of rub on the highest points of the devices. No roughness or verdigris, and the only notable marks are a tiny dig near the leaf under the left edge of the O in OF and a dull pinprick at the dentil tips over the U in UNITED. M-LDS, Breen state III, with a die defect in the hair left of the ear and a narrow rim cud over CA in AMERICA but no crumbling on the front edge of the neck. Our grade is EF45. Noyes says AU50 net EF40 and tied for CC#13. The attribution and Koshkarian provenance are noted on the PCGS label. PCGS population 4, 2 finer, 1 in 63, 1 in 64 for the variety. Estimate Value $5,000 - UP
Ex Tom Reynolds-Doug Bird 6/2007.
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