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1856 N-1 R1 Italic 5 MS63.

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / US Coins Start Price:190.00 USD Estimated At:400.00 USD
1856 N-1 R1 Italic 5 MS63.
1856 N-1 R1 Italic 5 MS63. Attractive lustrous bluish steel brown with 20% of the mint color remaining. A small stain of darker olive toning in the dentils over star 6 and a speck of darker toning at the dentils under the stem tip are the only defects. Rare LDS, die state g, with a series of 5 rim cud breaks at D-STATES to over the left top of the O in OF. The only voids in this series are at D-S and a smaller one over the right top of the second T in STATES. All the cud breaks are strong with clear margins. Tied for CC#5 overall but equal to finest known of a couple dozen known in die state g. Plated in the 2001 edition of the Grellman book to illustrate the die state. DWH #2188.
Estimated Value $400-UP.

Provenance: Ex Heritage 1998 ANA Sale, lot 5261-Chris McCawley 9/98-R. S. Brown, Jr., McCawley & Grellman Auctions/Superior 6/2/2002:1444-Chris McCawley 6/19/02.