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1849/8 N-8 R2 So-called Overdate 9 over 8 MS62.

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / US Coins Start Price:240.00 USD Estimated At:500.00 USD
1849/8 N-8 R2 So-called Overdate 9 over 8 MS62.
1849/8 N-8 R2 So-called Overdate 9 over 8 MS62. Highly lustrous bluish steel brown with traces of mint red in protected areas. There is a small spot of carbon in the dentils over star 2 and a smaller one in the dentils over star 8. Otherwise this cent is very nice and the fields are covered with satiny mint luster. EDS, die state b, with die lines at the dentils from star 2 to star 4, the reverse die crack faint (state a, with an uncracked reverse, is unknown and may not exist), and the rims are beveled. The repunching at the right base of the 9 is sharp. This may be a real overdate 9 over 8, but it may be a repunched 9 as well. Either way, this is a very attractive cent, CC#5 overall and second finest of the early die state. DWH #2124.
Estimated Value $500-UP.

Provenance: Ex Chris McCawley-R. S. Brown, Jr., McCawley & Grellman Auctions/Superior 6/2/2002:701.