Early Cents Auctions - The Colorado Collection

Chocolate and mahogany surfaces. Smooth hard surface, very glossy from a light coat of CARE. Defect free. Great examples of the later dieâ

Reddish tan with frosty surfaces. Advanced intermediate die state.

Lustrous light brown. Frosty surfaces.

Very close to mint state. Lots of frosty flowlined luster. A spot of untoned mint color by star 2. Neat late die state with attendant die breaks. Ex K

Medium reddish chocolate brown. Frosty and defect free surfaces.

Reddish chocolate and tan. Minor field marks. Great eye appeal.

Lustrous light brown. A nick on Liberty’s chin; another tiny one at star six.

Tan. A choice lustrous obverse. A short scratch in the field above C of CENT on the reverse.

Tan and brown with smooth problem free surfaces.

Beautiful tan. Some almost invisible scratches above star 13. Otherwise virtually mark free. LDS with strong reverse cracks. Listed as CC#9 in Noyes c

Smooth reddish tan. A few surface marks consistent with the grade.

Tan color typical of this variety. Hard glossy surfaces. Some crud in the reverse devices. Still quite hard to find nice.

Medium to light brown. Lustrous surfaces.

Light chocolate. Nice flowlined surfaces. Very late die state. A very nice example.

Light chocolate with some faded rose. Essentially mark free surfaces with no rub we can see. A nice cent.

Tan with glossy surfaces. Some handling marks and a short scratch over T of CENT. Early die state with no trace of the crack at star 5.

Chocolate with a sharp strike from an early state of these dies with a faint trace of the crack from the 4th dentil left of star 5. Mark free surfaces

Dark chocolate. Hard surfaces. A light crack extends from the dentils to star 5 to the top of Liberty’s hair bun. Scattere

Medium chocolate with a glossy surface. The crack is now much stronger from rim to hair bun and a small scrape at the obverse rim K-2. A second crack

Choice chocolate with a lustrous surface. The obverse is now strongly broken with the crack below 8 now extend to an internal cud in the hair. A rim b

Very late die state with a small cud under 83 of date.

Reddish chocolate and tan. Nice for grade.

Lustrous tan. Some tiny nicks under star 7. Good eye appeal.

Light chocolate steel color. Defect free surfaces. Full luster.

Steel and brown with some woodgrain on reverse. Tiny tic on rim K-6 obverse.

Nice chocolate color. Hard smooth planchet, but some marks. Very late die state probably terminal.

Chocolate with good flowline luster. The reverse in lighter tan. A couple marks on the reverse rim above A in STATES and O in OF. An area of darker to

Dark chocolate with hard glossy flowlined fields. Late die state (N-13) with rim cud at star 1.

Chocolate with a hard smooth surface. Sharply struck from an early die state. There was a time a 40 coin was #6 in the census. Thanks to John Wright,

Medium brown with hard smooth surfaces. Rare M-LDS with clear dentil fusing from star 7 to star 8. Third finest known of this die state at the time of

The obverse is a strong VF25 with smooth light brown surfaces. The reverse is a nice reddish brown color with some woodgrained tan but with some areas

Lustrous chocolate with faded red. Very flatly struck, but the color looks ok to me and somewhat typical of the variety. Flowline luster. Little if an

Light brown with smooth surfaces. Tiny pit mark in obverse field by star 2. Nice bisecting die break obverse.

Medium chocolate. An old scratch hidden by the first beaded hair cord. Good eye appeal.

Glossy brown with flowline luster. An old worn down scratch from Liberty’s corotnet to the rim K-11. Good eye appeal.

Nice dark chocolate and steel. A hard glossy planchet without defect. Removed from an ANACS holder EF45.

Pretty tan color. Smooth surfaces. Problem free.

Tan and brown. Some crud caked in some devices and around LIBERTY. Free of distracting marks.

Medium chocolate with smooth surfaces. Early die state with no trace of the obverse die crack.

Medium brown color with some speckling of carbon. Very sharply struck for this type from an early state of these dies.

Medium to light brown with hard glossy surfaces. Choice for the grade.

Dark chocolate with a hard glossy surface. Later die state with full bisecting obverse die break.

Fully lustrous greenish steel with just a trace of rub on the highest points. Hard to find any marks. There is a tiny tic at the rim above star 12. La

Glossy medium chocolate brown; some gold tone reverse. Removed from an NGC holder XF45.

Lustrous tan with a hard glossy surface. There is an old hairline scratch that runs from the field through Liberty’s chin,

Dark chocolate. A hard surface with some old verdigris on the reverse. Die state II with single obverse crack.

Glossy brown and tan. A microscopic wipe. Choice appearance. No detracting marks. Removed from an ANACS holder EF40. Ex Frisco Mint.

Light brown. Some old scratches from Liberty’s ear into field by star 13. Some other handling marks. The color makes up fo

Medium brown. A small dent on Liberty’s neck. Early die state with no trace of reverse crack over D STATE.

Light brown but the obverse portrait is covered with pinscratches. The diagnostics are sharp.