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1851 N-34 R4 MS63+.

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / US Coins Start Price:499.00 USD Estimated At:1,000.00 USD
1851 N-34 R4 MS63+.
1851 N-34 R4 MS63+. Slightly faded mint red mellowing to light bluish steel brown, at least a third of the red remaining. The surfaces are satiny and free of distracting marks, nearly flawless. The only defects are a very tiny tick on the coronet over the E and a few very tiny specks of darker toning right of star 11, the strongest one on the rim. M-LDS, die state b. The die lines above TES-OF are gone and minor roughness covers the field outside the wreath. CC#3 behind two slightly finer examples in the Grellman census. A very attractive example of a curious variety, struck from dies that were very poorly prepared with mushy, blunted details on everything but the date. (Recall that the date is added by hand to a die that is otherwise completed. Apparently these two dies were prepared in a similar manner using substandard materials or techniques. The only other cent dies that are similarly blunted are from the 1848 N-36 die pair, although a few others show less-obvious blunting on one or both sides.) Noyes photo #32782. DWH #3256.
Estimated Value $1,000-UP.

Provenance: Ex Long Beach Expo bourse 6/93-Bob Grellman 6/99-R. S. Brown, Jr., McCawley & Grellman Auctions/Superior 6/2/2002:1004-Chris McCawley 8/18/06.