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1853 C-1 R1 MS63+

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / US Coins Start Price:240.00 USD Estimated At:500.00 USD and UP
1853 C-1 R1 MS63+
1853 C-1 R1 MS63+. Lustrous bluish steel and light olive brown faded down from mint color with more than a third of the mint color remaining, mostly on the reverse. Outstanding eye appeal for the grade, very close to MS64. The notable marks are a couple very faint abrasions on the chin and cheek, a speck of dark toning above star 4, and a splash of fine carbon on the leaf tip under the first S in STATES. M-LDS, Manley state 2.0. The dull bar down through the first T in STATES is faint, nearly gone, and a very subtle depression has formed in the field off the tip of the nose. Removed from a PCGS slab graded MS64RB (old green PCGS label included, #1228.64/6503579). Noyes photo #74333.
Estimated Value $500-UP.

Provenance: Ex Doug Bird (who acquired a small hoard of 7 mostly red examples from an old western dealer in September 1993)-Jim McGuigan, McCawley & Grellman Auctions 1/8/1994:118 (failed to meet the reserve)-Jim McGuigan 2/24/1994.