The Pre Long Beach Auction

1855 N-4 R1 VF30. Slightly sharper but the highpoints were lightly cleaned and retoned steel brown with glossy original medium brown covering the rest

1855 N-4 R1 MS63. Glossy tan and light bluish steel brown with underlying faded mint red covering a third of the obverse and nearly a quarter of the r

1855 N-4 R1 AU55. Mint state sharpness but cleaned and retoned a highly glossy dark olive and steel brown with frosty lighter brown toning in protecte

1855 N-5 R5+ MS65. The obverse is slightly faded mint red toning to bluish steel on the highpoints, more than half the red remaining. The reverse is l

1855 N-6 R3 MS60+. Lustrous light steel brown with peeps of underlying faded mint red on the reverse. There are faint traces of an old fingerprint in

1855 N-7 R1 MS60. Lustrous light bluish steel brown with a trace of mint color on the obverse. There is a shallow planchet void or low spot in the cen

1855 N-8 R2 MS62. Lustrous light steel brown with attractive electric blue overtones and 15% of the mint red remaining. No spots or stains, the only n

1855 N-9 R1 Italic 55 Knob on Ear EF45. Glossy medium brown with steel brown toning on the highpoints and frosty luster in some of the protected areas

1855 N-9 R1 Italic 55 Knob on Ear AU55. Glossy olive brown and chocolate with frosty lighter brown in some protected areas. No defects, just a touch o

1855 N-9 R1 Italic 55 Knob on Ear AU55. Mint state sharpness but there is a carbon spot in the wreath under the second S in STATES, a dull rim nick at