The Pre Long Beach Auction

1847 N-32 R4 VF20. Sharpness VF35 but covered with microscopic roughness, strongest in the fields. No marks or other defects. Slightly glossy dark ste

1847 N-34 R5+ F12+. Slightly sharper with a rim bruise at the second A in AMERICA. Bluish steel brown and chocolate. There is some minor roughness on

1847 N-34 R5+ G5. A couple points sharper with a faint X scratched across the obverse. Otherwise free of marks. Lightly cleaned, now retoned glossy da

1847 N-34 R5+ AU50. Sharpness closer to mint state but lightly cleaned, now nicely retoned glossy medium brown and chocolate with bluish steel overton

1847 N-35 R3+ MS63. Lustrous bluish steel brown with 30% of the mint red remaining, mostly on the reverse. No spots or contact marks, but there are so

1847 N-35 R3+ VF20. Sharpness VF35 with a half dozen light pinscratches across the jawline and neck, a couple extending into the field under the chin.

1847 N-36 R6- EF40. Ten points sharper but there is a patch of very fine roughness at stars 8-9 and a dull rim nick or tiny rim bruise under star 13.

1847 N-37 R1 MS60. Glossy bluish steel and olive with 15% of the red remaining. The only notable mark is a light diagonal nick just right of the lips.

1847 N-38 R1 MS63. Frosty light steel brown with delicate overtones of bluish steel and 20% of the mint red remaining, mostly on the reverse. There is

1847 N-38 R1 VF35. Slightly sharper with a few too many light contact marks for the sharpness grade, including a dull vertical nick in the middle of t