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1831 C-1 Breen 1-A R6

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money Start Price:17,500.00 USD Estimated At:35,000.00 - 45,000.00 USD
1831 C-1 Breen 1-A R6
<Our item number 136063><B>1831 C-1 Breen 1-A R6. Proof 55.</B> Glossy medium brown with a small swipe of reddish brown toning at the dentil tips outside stars 11-13. There is a touch of very light friction on the highest points of the design and trivial contact marks scattered over both sides, none notable. The best identifying marks are a faint struck-through lint mark that meanders in the field above the 31 in the date and a tiny planchet void left of the bottom of the first A in AMERICA, both as struck. The fields are hard and reflective and there is fine doubling at many of the dentil tips on both sides, both factors suggesting a proof strike, but this piece was removed from a PCGS slab graded AU55 &#40;the old green PCGS label is included&#41;. Many experts believe there were both proof and business strikes from this die pair &#40;Walter Breen and Roger Cohen are in that camp&#41;, but others feel all the known examples were struck as proofs. This cataloger is of the opinion that all were struck as proo fs but a significant portion of that mintage was released into circulation, perhaps due to a lack of demand from collectors at the time. That would help explain why we see a relatively high percentage of the 25-26 known examples displaying the effects of circulation &#40;rather than simple mishandling&#41;. Weight 78.3 grains. <BR>Estimated Value &#36;35,000 - 45,000. <I><BR>Ex New England Coin Co-Bruce Stowe-Jim McGuigan 12/97.</I> <BR><BR>Our item number 136063<BR><IMAGES><P ALIGN="CENTER"><IMG SRC="http://www.goldbergcoins.net/liveauction/48jpegs/136063.jpg"> <BR><IMG SRC="http://www.goldbergcoins.net/liveauction/48jpegs/136063N2.jpg"> </P></IMAGES>