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1845 N-10 R3- MS64

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / US Coins Start Price:725.00 USD Estimated At:1,500.00 USD and UP
1845 N-10 R3- MS64
1845 N-10 R3- MS64. Lustrous steel and chocolate brown with faded mint color remaining on 25% of the obverse and brighter original mint red covering more than a third of the reverse. No spots or stains, and the only contact marks are a couple very light diagonal ticks on the cheek. Excellent eye appeal. M-LDS, die state b late, with two clear die cracks up to the dentils from the left top of the E in UNITED, and the area between these cracks is just starting to rise. Called MS63 and tied for CC#2 in the Noyes census, his photo #31244. Tied for CC#1 with three other pieces in the Grellman census. Removed from a PCGS slab graded MS65BN (PCGS label included, and it shows the attribution and Naftzger provenance).
Estimated Value $1,500-UP.

Provenance: Ex Bruno Crossfield 12/56-Willard C. Blaisdell 9/76 (via Del Bland)-R. E. Naftzger, Jr., McCawley & Grellman Auctions/Goldbergs 9/7/2009:695, The Northwest Collection.