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1796 S-118 R5+ Draped Bust F15.

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / US Coins Start Price:5,000.00 USD Estimated At:10,000.00 USD
1796 S-118 R5+ Draped Bust F15.
1796 S-118 R5+ Draped Bust F15. Fine-15. Slightly sharper but lightly cleaned and retoned glossy bluish steel brown and chocolate with traces of very faded reddish brown toning inside the wreath. The surfaces are smooth and show only minor marks. These include a faint diagonal fissure in the planchet running from the base of the E in LIBERTY across the forehead and along the profile of the nose into the field off the chin (as struck) plus a couple very light pinscratches in the field near the leaves over the N in ONE. The date and legends are all bold. Nicely struck EDS, Breen state I, without the rim cud break under the left end of the fraction. Called F15 and CC#5 in the Bland census. Noyes says VF20 net F12 and CC#4, his photo #25218. Removed from an NGC slab graded EF40 (NGC label included). DWH #2556.
Estimated Value $10,000-UP.
Ex Robert F. Batchelder 6/13/60-C. Douglas Smith 1970 (via Denis Loring)-R. S. Brown, Jr., Superior 9/30/86:162-Wes Rasmussen, Heritage 1/13/05:3136 (the attribution and Rasmussen pedigree are noted on the NGC label).

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