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1794 S-57 R1 AU58.

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / US Coins Start Price:5,000.00 USD Estimated At:10,000.00 USD
1794 S-57 R1 AU58.
1794 S-57 R1. AU-55. Frosty steel brown and chocolate with underlying mint luster covering both sides. No spots or contact marks. The only defects are mint-made, including a thin planchet fissure down from the right bottom of the 9 and some tiny planchet flakes from a weak strike at UNI and the opposing area at the top of the cap. Only the barest trace of light rub on the highest points from mint state. M-LDS, Breen state V, with two parallel depressions in the field before the face and a sunken area at the dentils over ICA. Fine die cracks follow along the parallel depressions in the field before the face and there are new die clashmarks in the field between the upper edge of the cap and the hair. Called AU55 and tied for CC#8 in the Bland/Breen census. Noyes says AU55 net AU50 and tied for CC#8, his photo #31709. Removed from a PCGS slab graded AU-58. PCGS Population 1; The Finest graded at PCGS for the variety. DWH #2354.
Estimated Value $10,000-UP.
Ex Major Sir Rowland Denys Guy Winn, M. C., 4th Baron St. Oswald-Christie, Manson & Woods, Ltd. (London) 2/1992:283-Eric Streiner-Superior 10/92:69-Tony Terranova-Chris McCawley 9/15/97-Walter Husak-Chris McCawley-Roger Siboni, McCawley & Grellman Auctions/Superior 5/25/03:380-Chris McCawley & Tony Terranova 1/9/04.

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