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1820/19 Coronet Head 1C PCGS MS63 BR

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / US Coins Start Price:500.00 USD Estimated At:1,000.00 - 0.00 USD
1820/19 Coronet Head 1C PCGS MS63 BR
1820/19 Coronet Head Cent. PCGS graded MS-63 Brown. Mint state sharpness but there are areas of extremely fine roughness on both sides, strongest at the hairbuns and CE in CENT. There is a small patch of very light verdigris or crud right of the base of the E in ONE and specks of dark verdigris nestled into the wreath under ED-ST. Lightly cleaned and retoned dark steel and olive brown with frosty slightly faded red covering the protected areas, especially on the obverse. MDS. Fine die flowlines cover the fields and the overdate is starting to weaken, but the undertype 19 remains visible, including the loop of the 9 inside the 0. This cent offers excellent eye appeal and appears to be choice to the unaided eye. Called MS62 and tied for CC#6 in the Bland census. Noyes says AU55 net AU50, his photo #22647. Our grade is AU58. Pop 1; The only one graded at PCGS for the variety in Brown. DWH #2587 (PCGS # 36685) .
Estimated Value $1,000-UP.

Provenance: Ex California Numismatic Funding 2/84-William K. Raymond-Del Bland-R. E. Naftzger, Jr., 1989 EAC Sale, lot 232-Dennis Mendelson, Superior 2/3/91:282-John MacDonald 9/99-Wes Rasmussen, Heritage 1/13/05:3439.